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  • Date and time: Wednesday 20 November 2019, 5pm to 6pm
  • Location: Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre, P/L001, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to staff, students, the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Adam Phillips Lecture Series

About the speaker

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) and his most recent book Unforbidden Pleasures (Penguin, 2015).

Please note the change from the original venue.

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Hearing loop