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On flirtation
- Title
- On flirtation / Adam Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, Adam.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BF173 .P57 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxv, 226 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements - about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220) and index.
- Contents
- I. The Uses of the Past -- 1. Contingency for Beginners -- 2. Freud and the Uses of Forgetting -- 3. On Love -- 4. On Success -- 5. Besides Good and Evil -- 6. The Telling of Selves -- II. Psychoanalysis Reviewed -- 7. Depression -- 8. Anna Freud -- 9. Perversion -- 10. Freud and Jones -- 11. Cross-Dressing -- 12. Erich Fromm -- 13. Guilt -- 14. Freud's Circle -- 15. Futures -- III. Writing Outside -- 16. Philip Roth's Patrimony -- 17. Isaac Rosenberg's English -- 18. Karl Kraus's Complaint -- 19. John Clare's Exposure.
- ISBN
- 0674634373 (alk. paper)
- 9780674634374 (alk. paper)
- 0674634403 (pbk.)
- 9780674634404 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94018821
- OCLC
- ocm30593238
- 30593238
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries