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Darwin's Worms

On Life Stories and Death Stories

by Adam Phillips
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Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death." In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.

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  • Release date

    June 16, 2009

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780786748617

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780786748617
      • File size: 568 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1220
    • Text Difficulty: 9-12

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1220
  • Text Difficulty:9-12

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