Adam Phillips Lecture 3, 2024/25

Talk
  • Date and time: Wednesday 7 May 2025, 5pm
  • Location: Lecture Theatre SLB/118, Spring Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

A joint lecture event with the History of Art Department.

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today. The Irish novelist John Banville has him as 'one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'.  Adam has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature since 2006.  He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud, and author of more than 16 books of essays and studies from On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (1993) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014).  His most recent books are On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017).

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Hearing loop