One Way And Another by Adam Phillips

New and Selected Essays

A collection of essays that blends psychoanalytic insight, literary criticism and personal reflection to probe the paradoxes of desire, intimacy and selfhood; it examines how ambivalence, misrecognition and disappointment shape love, parenting, art and ethics, and suggests that uncertainty and curiosity are essential to human life. Witty, elegiac and thought-provoking, the pieces invite readers to rethink agency, responsibility and the narratives we tell about ourselves.