On not believing in anything: Or, why Freud?
Talk
Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst
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Event date
Wednesday 26 October 2022, 5pm to 6pm
Location
In-person only
Bowland Auditorium , Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Bowland Auditorium , Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking required
Event details
Autumn Term Adam Phillips Lecture
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 Unforbidden Pleasures (Penguin, 2015), In Writing (Penguin 2017), and Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019).
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible
Hearing loop