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The Life You Want

By Adam Phillips
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
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By Adam Phillips
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
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Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.

Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do-and fail to do-about actually getting them?

In The Life You Want, Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely endure, tolerate, or make the most of.

Through a series of interlinked essays, Phillips explores the ...