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All love stories are frustration stories. As are all stories about parents and children, which are also love stories, in Freud's view, the formative love stories. To fall in love is to be reminded of...

Adam Phillips

All love stories are frustration stories. As are all stories about parents and children, which are also love stories, in Freud's view, the formative love stories. To fall in love is to be reminded of...

Tags: falling in love, freud, frustration, love, satisfaction, the examined life

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.

Adam Phillips

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.

Tags: history, phantom histories

About Author
Adam Phillips may refer to the following people:

Adam Phillips (animator) (born 1971), Australian animator, known as Chluaid online
Adam Phillips (psychologist) (born 1954), British child psychotherapist, literary critic, and essayist
Adam Phillips (musician), British jazz and blues guitarist and singer
Adam Phillips (footballer) (born 1998), English footballer

It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it...

Adam Phillips

It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it...

Tags: desire, pornography, revenge, satisfaction

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always reali...

Adam Phillips

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always reali...

Tags: expectations, parenting