Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips’s most recent book is On Balance.

In the LRB Archive:

• Judas’ Gift: In Praise of Betrayal · 5 January 2012

• Am I a spaceman?: Wilhelm Reich · 20 October 2011

  • Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner

• Stag at Bay: Byron in Geneva · 25 August 2011

  • Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 by David Ellis

• A Little Bit of Showing Off: Isherwood’s 1960s · 6 January 2011

  • The Sixties: Diaries 1960-69 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Memories of Frank Kermode · 23 September 2010

• Misgivings: Christopher Ricks · 22 July 2010

  • True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks

• Self-Amused: Isaiah Berlin · 23 July 2009

  • Isaiah Berlin, Enlightening: Letters 1946-60 edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes

• In Praise of Difficult Children: In Praise of Difficult Children · 12 February 2009

• Self-Made Aristocrats: The Wittgensteins and Their Money · 4 December 2008

  • The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh

• Who’d want to be a man?: A New Model of Sexuality · 19 June 2008

  • Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond

• Where Did the Hatred Go?: Criticism without Malice · 6 March 2008

  • A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe by Geoffrey Hartman

• After Strachey: Translating Freud · 4 October 2007

• No Joke: Meanings of Impotence · 5 July 2007

  • Impotence: A Cultural History by Angus McLaren

• What Can You Know?: Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost · 26 April 2007

  • The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

• Someone Else: Paul Muldoon · 4 January 2007

  • The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Paul Muldoon
  • Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon

• No reason for not asking: Empson’s War on God · 3 August 2006

  • Selected Letters of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

• Let’s have your story: Why do we give reasons? · 25 May 2006

  • Why?: What Happens When People Give Reasons . . . and Why by Charles Tilly

• Thwarted Closeness: Diane Arbus · 26 January 2006

• Remember me: Bret Easton Ellis · 1 December 2005

  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

• What You Really Want: Edmund White · 3 November 2005

  • My Lives by Edmund White

• My Own Ghost: John Banville’s Great Unanswerables · 4 August 2005

  • The Sea by John Banville

• Newfangled Inner Worlds: Malingering · 3 March 2005

  • Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham

• Desired Desire: Sándor Márai and the myth of redemptive love · 21 October 2004

  • Conversations in Bolzano by Sándor Márai, translated by George Szirtes

• A Terrible Thing, Thank God: Dylan Thomas · 4 March 2004

  • Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett

• Hauteur: ‘Paranoid Modernism’ · 22 May 2003

  • The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson
  • Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis and the Professionalisation of English Society by David Trotter

• Bored with Sex?: Nasty Turns · 6 March 2003

• Plumage and Empire: This is an Ex-Parrot · 31 October 2002

  • Spix’s Macaw: The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird by Tony Juniper

• The Soul of Man under Psychoanalysis: ‘The Soul of Man under Psychoanalysis’ · 29 November 2001

• Extenuating Circumstances: Paul Steinberg · 19 July 2001

  • Speak You Also: A Survivor’s Reckoning by Paul Steinberg, translated by Linda Coverdale

• Dealing with Disappointment: Bertrand Russell · 8 March 2001

  • Bertrand Russell 1921-70: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk

• Knitting: Charm · 16 November 2000

  • Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-51 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Unfathomable Craziness: When a body meets a body · 18 May 2000

  • Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture by Daniel Pick

• On the Run: John Lanchester · 2 March 2000

  • Mr Phillips by John Lanchester

• You call that a breakfast? · 17 February 2000

  • Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen

• Roaring Boy: Hart Crane · 30 September 1999

  • The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane by Paul Mariani
  • O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber

• Commanded to Mourn: mourning · 18 February 1999

  • Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier

• Reasons for Living: On Being Understood · 12 November 1998

  • Open-Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul by Jonathan Lear

• Long Runs: A.E. Housman · 18 June 1998

  • The Poems of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett
  • The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard

• Cloud Cover · 16 October 1997

  • Night Train by Martin Amis

• Getting Ready to Exist · 17 July 1997

  • A Centenary Pessoa edited by Eugénio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor
  • The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan Brown
  • The Book of Disquietude by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith

• You have to be educated to be educated · 3 April 1997

  • The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

• Doing Heads · 31 October 1996

  • Asylum by Patrick McGrath

• Getting Even · 19 September 1996

  • Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan
  • Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? by A.D. Nuttall

• On Interest · 20 June 1996

• Women: what are they for? · 4 January 1996

  • Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels edited by Edward Timms

• Provocation · 24 August 1995

  • Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue

• Nicknames · 9 March 1995

  • Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond by Nancy Chodorow

• The Experts · 22 December 1994

• Secrets · 6 October 1994

  • The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi. Vol I: 1908-14 edited by Eva Brabant, Ernst Falzeder and Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, translated by Peter Hoffer

• The Shock of the Old · 10 February 1994

  • Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience by Christopher Bollas
  • Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory by Malcolm Bowie

• The Unimportance of Being Ernest · 5 August 1993

  • The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939 edited by Andrew Paskauskas, introduction by Riccardo Steiner

• I feel guilty · 11 March 1993

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and Further Psychoanalytic Explorations by Nina Coltart
  • The Damned and the Elect by Friedrich Ohly, translated by Linda Archibald

• Having it both Ways · 5 November 1992

  • Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber

• What if Freud didn’t care? · 14 May 1992

  • The Secret Ring: Freud’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth

• How to be your father’s mother · 12 September 1991

  • Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

• Freud’s Idols · 27 September 1990

• What is there to lose? · 24 May 1990

  • Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon Roudiez
  • Surviving trauma: Loss, Literature and Psychoanalysis by David Aberbach

• A Seamstress in Tel Aviv · 14 September 1989

  • Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

• Making a mess · 2 February 1989

  • Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood by Estela Welldon

• Freud and his Mother · 31 March 1988

  • The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality by Estelle Roith

• How to be Viennese · 5 March 1987

  • Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist by Edward Timms
  • Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths: Selected Aphorisms of Karl Kraus translated by Harry Zohn

• Rebecca, take off your gown · 8 May 1986

  • Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews by Sander Gilman

• Poem: ‘Intruder’ · 15 May 1980

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