The beast in the nursery
1st ed.
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Word Count
41,250 words, Guess
Page Count
165 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL673483M
- ISBN-100375400494
- OCLC Control Number36900873
- OCLC Control Numberbeastinnursery0000phil_w6h4
- Library of Congress Control Number97019575
and 2 more
- LibraryThing104368
- Goodreads4605169
Classifications
- DDC150.19/5
- LCCBF173 .P568 1998
Description
Growing up is a process of disillusionment, during which we shed the vitality of childhood - or so conventional wisdom has it. In The Beast in the Nursery, Adam Phillips shows why we are so keen to accept this reassuringly disappointing myth. He questions whether our first appetites can survive the acquisition of language, the donning of custom, the onset of education - all the ways in which we learn that the world is not simply what we want it to be. He offers a portrait of the conflict in all of us between the child and the realist, the dreamer and the scientist, the beast and the nursery. For Phillips, our lives are livable only insofar as we do not lose what inspires us, but learn instead how to transform it into guiding knowledge.
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