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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life | Adam Phillips
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All of us lead two parallel lives: the life we actually live and the one that we wish for and fantasise about. And this life unlived (the one that never actually happens, the one we might be living but for some reason are not) can occupy an extraordinary part of our mental life. We share our lives, in a sense, with the people we have failed to be - and this can become itself the story of our lives: an elegy to needs unmet, desires sacrificed and roads untaken. In this elegant, compassionate and absorbing book, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips demonstrates that there might in fact be much to be said for the unlived life. Drawing deeply on the works of Shakespeare and of Freud, amongst other writers and thinkers, he suggests that in missing out on one experience we always open ourselves to the potential of another, and that in depriving ourselves of the frustration of not getting what we think we want, we would be depriving ourselves of the possibilities of satisfaction.
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Not gonna lie, I've got some #FOMO happening watching everyone open their #cupidgoespostal packages. I didn't participate this go round but I doubt that self control will last when the next swap signups happen! 😂

Avanders 😂💋💋 That's the nice thing about Litsy, there're always more swaps!! 7y
AmyG There is a new mug one, an Easter one and a beach one! 7y
BookishTrish There's a steampunk one too. Sign ups this week #steampunkgoespostal 7y
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Tamra I have to live vicariously because I don‘t trust myself with deadlines! 😬 7y
JoScho Me too 😔 7y
swishandflick Thanks guys! I usually participate in the major swaps and I'm participating in the #PotterheadSwap currently so I'm mostly just being greedy 😂 . @Avanders @AmyG @BookishTrish 7y
swishandflick @Tamra I hear you! I try to limit myself to one swap at a time so I don't drop the ball! 7y
BethM I‘m with you- I try to stick to the major ones, but primarily because my checkbook couldn‘t handle all the ones I want to do lol. 7y
Avanders 😘😘 7y
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Having some feelings about missing #BKBF.

shainareads Bookish FOMO is the realest FOMO 8y
OutlandishLit For real 8y
Librariana We are united in this Bookish FOMO as I am also not attending and therefore just looking at pretty pictures here *and* on Instagram and going "oh"... "oh, that's nice"... "oh, wow" ???? 8y
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