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Attention Seeking

By Adam Phillips

Attention Seeking

By Adam Phillips

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Attention Seeking is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness. Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two). Based on three connected lectures by Adam Phillips, this compact book is a lucid and memorable introduction to the concept of our attention, spanning from interest to obsession, private desire to corporate commodity. What is attention, and why do we seek it? How does our culture moralize attention as a force in need of control? Phillips is one of our brightest and most unusual thinkers, uniquely capable of bringing our deepest impulses and instincts to light.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2022-01-04
Publication Date:
2022-01-04
Publisher:
Picador Paper
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0374539278
ISBN13:
9780374539276
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
177 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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