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There are two sides to giving up. The virtue of sacrifice – and the sin of despair. So how do we decide which is which? That’s the question psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asks in his newest book “On Giving Up.”
Giving up has gotten a bad rap. But Adam Phillips wants us to see that letting go can be the precondition for starting anew.
Writer and psychotherapist Adam Phillips is often hailed as one of the world’s great essayists. His new book – exploring the topic of giving up, among other things – is both erudite and slippery.
<strong>The long read:</strong> We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of happiness this month, from Austen’s Persuasion to a 21st-century sonnet