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Terrors and experts
- Title
- Terrors and experts / Adam Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, Adam, 1954-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 96-7597 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 110 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, addresses our fears - in essence, turns our terror into meaning." "Phillips takes up those topics about which psychoanalysis claims expertise - childhood, sexuality, love, development, dreams, art, the unconscious, unhappiness - and explores what Freud's description of the unconscious does to the idea of expertise, in life and in psychoanalysis itself. If we are not, as Freud's ideas tell us, masters of our own houses, then what kind of claims can we make for ourselves? These questions, so central to the human condition and to the state of psychoanalysis, resonate through this book as Phillips considers our notions of competence, of a professional self, of expertise in every realm of life from parenting to psychoanalysis. Terrors and Experts testifies to what makes psychoanalysis interesting, to that interest in psychoanalysis - which teaches us the meaning of our ignorance - that makes the terrors of life more bearable, even valuable."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) and index.
- Contents
- Terrors and Experts: An Introduction -- 1. Authorities -- 2. Symptoms -- 3. Fears -- 4. Dreams -- 5. Sexes -- 6. Minds.
- Call Number
- JFD 96-7597
- ISBN
- 067487479X
- 9780674874794
- LCCN
- 95038506
- OCLC
- 33078609
- Author
- Phillips, Adam, 1954- author.
- Title
- Terrors and experts / Adam Phillips.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 96-7597