Essays

A dazzling meditation on the philosophical, scientific, and historical roots of attention, an attempt to pin down this elusive state of being. You'...

Endlessly surprising and entertaining, Humiliation is an essay-in-fragments unlike any other you will read on the human condition. With a disarming...

In the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as ...

translated by Steven Corcoran Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his...

Identity has never been so much in the spotlight – or rather its vulnerability and fragility in a digital culture that breaches the normal firewall...