Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories - Adam Phillips - Books - Basic Books - 9780465056767 - February 7, 2001
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Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories Reprint edition

Adam Phillips

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Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories Reprint edition

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 7, 2001
ISBN13 9780465056767
Publishers Basic Books
Pages 148
Dimensions 131 × 10 × 200 mm   ·   172 g
Language English  

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