On kissing, tickling, and being bored : psychoanalytic essays on the unexamined life / Adam Phillips.
"Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to tears. Where is that ticklish line between pleasure and pain? Why do we risk its being crossed? Does psychoanalysis possess the language to talk about such an extraordinary ordinary thing? In a sty...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- On tickling
- First hates: phobias in theory
- On risk and solitude
- On composure
- Worrying and its discontents
- Returning the dream: in memoriam Masud Khan
- On being bored
- Looking at obstacles
- Plotting for kisses
- Playing mothers: between pedagogy and transference
- Psychoanalysis and idolatry.