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September 14, 2004
The beast in the nursery
| Title | The beast in the nursery |  |
| Author | Adam Phillips | |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books | |
| Date | 1998 | |
| ISBN | 0 375 40049 4 | |
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| This is a collection of layered and complex writing by a clear and humane thinker‹and a wonderful writer. Phillips ranges widely, and cites inspired references from psychology (including his London practice), philosophy, and literature, and always with distinct purpose. Freud, Hanna Segal, H.G. Wells, Auden, Blake, Marion Milner, John Keats, D.W. Winnicott, and Melanie Klein (among others) are cited in this book, effectively. He’s blazingly creative, more subtly political, and good-hearted‹and it shows. The book is a slower read than his earlier ones, but well worth it. | ||
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Posted by Books Editor at September 14, 2004 09:33 PM