In the style of his earlier books, "On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored" and "On Flirtation", the author discusses ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and the idea of expertise itself. He challenges the conventional idea of the "self" as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution. By examining our wish to believe things - and people (including psychoanalysts) - the book offers a revision of psychoanalysis itself. For to take psychoanalysis seriously, Phillips suggests, is to be unable to take gurus seriously.
- ISBN13 9780571175833
- Publish Date 5 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English