Adam Phillips In Conversation with Hugh Haughton

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At this event Adam Phillips will talk with Hugh Haughton about his recent book, 'The Life You Want'.

About the speakers

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 is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and 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 29 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), The Cure For Psychoanalysis (Karnac Books, 2021), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), On Wanting To Change (Penguin, 2021) and On Getting Better (Penguin, 2021).

Hugh Haughton works in the field of modernism, modern poetry and poetics; psychoanalysis; the literature of nonsense; letters and life-writing; and twentieth-century Irish literature. He is the author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (OUP, 2007) and editor (with Valerie Eliot) of The Letters of T.S. Eliot volumes 1 and 2 (2009). He has written numerous essays on W.B. Yeats and other Irish poets as well as on modernist poets including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Geoffrey Hill, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop. In the field of nonsense, he is the editor of The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry (1985) and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: The Centenary Alice (Penguin, 1998) as well as articles on Lear and Queer Nonsense. In the field of psychoanalysis, he has edited Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (Penguin, 2003) and Marion Milner, Eternity’s Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary (2011) as well as an essay on ‘Screen Memories’ for
Raritan. He is currently writing a study of Emily Dickinson.