Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips. Photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger

Adam Phillips (born September 19, 1954 in Cardiff ) is a British author and psychoanalyst with his own practice in London. Since 2003 he has been the editor of the new English translation of Sigmund Freud's work, which is published by Penguin Books .

He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the New York Times and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York since 2006 . Several of his essays and books on literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis have been translated into German, French, Italian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese, among others.

Fonts (selection)

• About kissing, tickling and being bored. Translated from the English by Klaus Laermann. Steidl, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88243-457-0 .
  • Original edition: On kissing, tickling and being bored: psychoanalytic essays on the unexamined life. Faber and Faber, London [a. a.] 1993, ISBN 0-57117-022-6 .
• Monogamy ... but three are a couple. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-59613-653-9 .
  • Original edition: Monogamy and other writings: on love, dreams and desire. Faber, London 1996, ISBN 0-57119-077-4 .
• About flirting. Psychoanalytic Essays. Translated from the English by Klaus Laermann. Psychosozial-Verl., Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-898-06718-8 .
  • Original edition: On flirtation. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 0-67463-437-3 .
• Darwin's worms and Freud's death. About the sense of the ephemeral. Translated from the English by Florian Langegger. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-40401-0 .
  • Original edition: Darwin's worms. Basic Books, New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-465-05676-7 .
• Perfectly happy? About mental health and everyday madness. Translated from the English by Florian Langegger. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-40407-2 .
  • Original edition: Going sane. Harper Perennial, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-007-15536-1 .
• Winnicott. Translated from the English by Florian Langegger. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-40157-6 .
  • Original edition: Winnicott. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1988, ISBN 0-67495-360-6 .
• with Barbara Taylor: Kindness. Discreet comments on an outmoded virtue. Translated from the English by Susanne Held. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-94609-3 .
  • Original edition: On kindness. Hamish Hamilton, London 2009, ISBN 0-24114-433-7 .

Web links

• Sean O'Hagan: That way sanity lies. In: The Guardian. February 13, 2005, accessed April 26, 2020 . 
• Marion Löhndorf: A certain narcissism is vital, says the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 4, 2019, accessed April 26, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Psychosozial-Verlag. Retrieved April 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Unsatisfying Pleasures - English and Related Literature, The University of York. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .