Second Chances Again

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University of York Open Lectures

Join the Department of English and Related Literature for this term's Adam Phillips Lecture

Room BS/005 - Berrick Saul Building

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Speaker: Adam Phillips, writer and psychoanalystAdam Phillips Lecture
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 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 (1993) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014). His most recent books are Unforbidden Pleasures (Penguin, 2015), In Writing (Penguin 2017), and Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019).**********If you require more than 5 tickets, please <a href="mailto:publiclectures@york.ac.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">contact the Events Team</a> who will be happy to help.Please ensure you use the correct email address as this is where your ticket will be sent. If you do not provide the correct address, you will not receive the acknowledgement email or ticket.

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