Unforbidden Pleasures

"It is a real pleasure to glide through philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis with Adam Phillips. Through his fine essays, one finds oneself paying attention to things that repay reflection without demanding allegiance to a new set of principles."—Michael S. Roth, The Washington Post

"Phillips is . . . a bit like an Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis, both affable and unalarmed."—Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe

"[Phillips] writes playfully and suggestively on a topic that tends to get written about in the most unliterary of languages. This attractive quality in his work—its inviting (and mildly paradoxical) combination of the provocative and the ambivalent—is evident from the very beginning of his new collection, Unforbidden Pleasures."—Mark O'Connell, The New York Times Book Review

"There is a prismatic quality to Adam Phillips's thought. Pour in some Oscar Wilde or Emerson, Kafka, or, most often, Freud, and watch the British writer and psychoanalyst's refractions multiply, mesh, and twist in kaleidescopic considerations"—Chris Wallace, Interview Magazine

"A dense, challenging, provocative meditation on morality and identity."—Kirkus Reviews

“This slim volume is rich in psychological, philosophical, and literary insight.”—Publishers Weekly