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  • Published: 5 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241964095
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Unforbidden Pleasures




A great deal has been written of the pleasures that are forbidden to us. But what of the 'unforbidden' pleasures?

In his dazzling new book Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers.

Unforbidden pleasures, he argues, are always the ones we tend not to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from them. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us.

  • Published: 5 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241964095
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

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Praise for Unforbidden Pleasures

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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