Unforbidden Pleasures
  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241964088
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

Unforbidden Pleasures

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5 Nov 2015
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14 Nov 2016
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Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the 'unforbidden' pleasures?

Society is fascinated by taboo - we spend our lives chasing illicit pleasures - but nobody pays much attention to all the unforbidden pleasures freely available to us every day. Could we be gaining just as much reward from these unnoticed, unforbidden indulgences as from the much-glorified forbidden - or even more?

Starting with Oscar Wilde, Adam Phillips elegantly unfolds all the meanings and significances of the Unforbidden, from Genesis to Freud and his 20th century colleagues. Unforbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality.
  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241964088
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Unforbidden Pleasures

The most interestingly subversive meditation on modern life I have read for many years... Phillips ranges over a wide field, including reflections on Hamlet and the tyrannical power of conscience. Elegant, forceful and rich in insight, this is a book that can be read again and again

New Statesman - Books of the Year 2015

[A] playfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis

Daily Telegraph

There is a lot of philosophy and psychoanalysis packed into these 200 pages

Radar

Adam Phillips is single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists

Observer

The best living essayist writing in English

John Gray

He's brilliant

John Carey

Phillips radiates infectious charm

Sunday Times

Publisher's description. Adam Phillips elegantly unfolds the concept of the 'unforbidden', from the Old Testament to Freud and beyond, exploring the philosophical, psychological and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality.

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