Those Passions: On art, politics, and psychoanalysis Adam Phillips, author and psychoanalyst

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 at the University of York 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 (Faber, 1994) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Yale University Press London, 2014). His most recent books are On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017).

T. J. Clark is professor emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Meant and his Followers (1984), Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999), The Sight of Death (2006), Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (2013), Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come (2018), and If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present (2022). He writes criticism regularly for the London Review of Books, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art at York.