UNFORBIDDEN PLEASURES

Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips: he takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the me anings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentieth-centu ry psychoanalytic thinkers. Unforbidden pleasures, he argues, are always the ones we tend not to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from them. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our res trictive...[Read more]