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by Adam Phillips


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Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death." In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.

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Darwin came back, after five years on the Beagle, suffering from nature-shock.

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  • Title Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
  • Author Adam Phillips
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-02-07
  • ISBN 9780465056767 / 0465056768
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.24 x 0.41 in (20.35 x 13.31 x 1.04 cm)
  • Reading level 1220
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99088832
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/30/2001, Page 63
  • New York Times, 02/18/2001, Page 32

About the author

Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box.
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