Seeing the Worst Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer

Talk
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  • Date and time: Wednesday 19 February 2025, 5pm to 6pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Room ATB/056, Seebohm Rowntree Building (ATB), Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

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 On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017).

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Hearing loop

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open-lectures@york.ac.uk
01904 324778
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