{"product_id":"attention-seeking-paperback","title":"Attention Seeking - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAttention Seeking\u003c\/i\u003e is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of \u003ci\u003eMissing Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on three connected lectures by Adam Phillips, this compact book is a lucid and memorable introduction to the concept of our attention, spanning from interest to obsession, private desire to corporate commodity. What is attention, and why do we seek it? How does our culture moralize attention as a force in need of control? Phillips is one of our brightest and most unusual thinkers, uniquely capable of bringing our deepest impulses and instincts to light.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including \u003ci\u003eMissing Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnforbidden Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, he is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724985077823,"sku":"9780374539276","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/dbeaf2cdfc4ada3ee74a85fa1ecf0116.webp?v=1765104687","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/attention-seeking-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}