On Wanting to Change
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Adam Phillips
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- March 18, 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-29177-1
- GTIN
- 9780241291771
- Weight, g
- 92
About
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change — to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.
We change all the time — growing older and older — and how we think about change changes over time too.
We want to think of our lives as progress myths — as narratives of positive personal growth — at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.
So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make — and they don't always go, or come, together . . .
This sparkling book is about that fact.