On Flirtation

Adam Phillips

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    On Flirtation: An Introduction

    I. The Uses of the Past

    1. Contingency for Beginners

    2. Freud and the Uses of Forgetting

    3. On Love

    4. On Success

    5. Besides Good and Evil

    6. The Telling of Selves

    II. Psychoanalysis Reviewed

    7. Depression

    8. Anna Freud

    9. Perversion

    10. Freud and Jones

    11. Cross-Dressing

    12. Erich Fromm

    13. Guilt

    14. Freud's Circle

    15. Futures

    III. Writing Outside

    16. Philip Roth's Patrimony

    17. Isaac Rosenberg's English

    18. Karl Kraus's Complaint

    19. John Clare's Exposure

    Bibliography

    Index

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Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London.