{"product_id":"the-life-you-want-hardcover","title":"The Life You Want (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best living essayist writing in English' John Gray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat does it mean to ‘get a life’ in a culture in which there is so much to\nwant?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd why do the lives we think we need so often fail to satisfy?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith his characteristic curiosity, warmth and perceptiveness, Adam Phillips\naddresses one of the key perplexities of modern life, which is that we are all\nthe products of the families or social groups we grow up in: they shape us\nselectively and guide us to their preferred ways of living; but we then spend\nour lives haunted by the aspects of ourselves that they have ignored.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWe conform and yet we rebel. So, the lives we want for ourselves are likely to\nbe a difficult mixture of the all too familiar and the experimental. And,\nnecessarily, we all must make things up as we go along.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat is to be done? The answer, Adam Phillips suggests, is to pay especially\nclose attention to what interests us, excites us and frightens us; to make an\nexperiment of living; and thereby to discover the life we want – and whether it\nis viable.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'One of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'\nJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAdam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at\nCharing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting\nprofessor in the English department at the University of York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and\nliterary criticism, including most recently \u003ci\u003eOn Giving Up\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn\nWanting to Change, Attention Seeking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnforbidden\nPleasures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMissing Out\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud\ntranslations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44875606229199,"sku":"9780241766118","price":45.78,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_636806da-22f7-4f7e-8ef3-267d3915e3e6.jpg?v=1772174432","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-life-you-want-hardcover","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}