Unsatisfying pleasures Professor Adam Phillips, author and psychoanalyst

Talk
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  • Date and time: Wednesday 29 January 2020, 5pm to 6pm
  • Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Adam Phillips Spring Lecture

Psychoanalyst and author, Adam Phillips, presents his lecture for Spring term. 

About the speaker

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

Hugh Haughton

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