{"product_id":"the-life-you-want","title":"The Life You Want","description":"Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.\n\nWhere do we get ideas about the kinds of lives we want? What do we fail to do about actually getting them―and why do our ideas so often fail to satisfy us in the end?\n\nEver curious, sympathetic, and perceptive, Adam Phillips uses both psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed with the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely endure, tolerate, or make the best of.\n\nThe interlinked essays in The Life You Want explore the issues we have with the idea of enjoyment of life while living amid a culture that insistently promotes it and simultaneously makes it difficult for many people to achieve. With his keen eye, Phillips charts the personal and political overlap in our lives and delivers a profound analysis of our ambivalence about enjoyment and, indeed, about wanting.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 037461797X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.037461797X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Phillips, Adam\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41645234651194,"sku":"DBV.037461797X.G","price":19.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/037461797X-0.jpg?v=1789179569","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-life-you-want","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}