Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

by Adam Phillips

Book Overview

From the leading psychoanalyst Adam Phillips comes Missing Out, a transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are.

All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374281114
• ISBN13: 9780374281113
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"