Darwin’s Worms On Life Stories and Death Stories
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Full Title

Darwin\'s Worms On Life Stories and Death Stories
Author(s)

Adam Phillips
Edition
ISBN

9780786748617, 9780465056767, 9780465056750
Publisher

Basic Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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