| Title | : | Darwin's Worms |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Adam Phillips |
| Release | : | 2009-06-16 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Psychology, Books, Health, Mind & Body |
| Size | : | 755989 |
| Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death." In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story. |
