The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.
Adam Phillips Quotes
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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| Birth: | 19th September, 1954 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Psychotherapist, Writer |
About
Adam Phillips is a British psychotherapist and essayist. Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Joan Acocella, writing in The New Yorker, described Phillips as "Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer", an opinion echoed by historian Elisabeth Roudinesco in Le Monde.
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