The truth of psychoanalysis Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst

Talk
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  • Date and time: Wednesday 15 May 2019, 5pm to 6pm
  • Location: The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Adam Phillips Lecture

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips returns for his Summer term open lecture. 

Adam Phillips

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).

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Hearing loop

Contact

Helen Barrett

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