From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on
the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change--to become our best
selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all
the time--growing older and older--and how we think about change changes
over time too.
We want to think of our lives as progress myths--as narratives of
positive personal growth--at the same time as we inevitably age and
suffer setbacks.
Adam Phillips's sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the
stories we tell about change, and the changes we actually make--and the
fact that they don't always go, or come, together.