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Darwin s Worms On Life Stories and Death Stories
by [Phillips, Adam]
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Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death." In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.
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- Basic Books Brand
- Feb 7, 2001 Pub Date:
- 9780465056767 ISBN-13:
- 0465056768 ISBN-10:
- 148.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.4 in * 5.31 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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