Adam Phillips Seminar, Semester 1, 2024/25

Seminar
  • Date and time: Wednesday 9 October 2024, 3pm
  • Location: Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to students
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

This seminar will discuss Sections I, II & III (pp. 153-167) of 'Inhibition, Symptom, and Fear', in the New Penguin Sigmund Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics, 2003).

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).  His most recent books are On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017).

Adam Phillips Seminar Text: 'Inhibition, Symptom, and Fear' (PDF , 627kb)