{"product_id":"the-life-you-want-adam-phillips-hardcover","title":"The Life You Want -- Adam Phillips, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhere 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe interlinked essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Want \u003c\/i\u003eexplore 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Adam Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.4\" H x 5.4\" L x 0.8\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374617974\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51237946032432,"sku":"9780374617974","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780374617974_6a7ba795-2be9-4512-9eee-1745f3aaaaf4.jpg?v=1783085152","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-life-you-want-adam-phillips-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}