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On Giving Up: What Must We Give Up to Feel More Alive?

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內容簡介 ✦ 放棄，不是結束，而是重生的開始我們總以為「放棄」意味著失去——但也許，真正讓人窒息的，是從未放手。精神分析師 Adam Phillips 以一貫敏銳而優雅的筆觸，帶領讀者重新思考「放棄」這件事：我們放下壞習慣、關係、期待，甚至某種自我形象——但這些選擇，究竟是逃避，還是通往更自由人生的轉機？在模糊的界線之間，他揭示每一次「放棄」其實都是一次關鍵轉向——當我們無法再以原本的方式活下去，放棄，便成為創造未來的起點。要放棄，還是不放棄？這個問題似乎無法逃避，但答案從來不簡單。放下我們自認的壞習慣是一回事；對人生本身放棄，又是另一回事。一種自我犧牲令人覺得正面，甚至值得欽佩與嚮往；另一種則令人不安，甚至讓人避之唯恐不及。事實上，放棄總同時包含好的與壞的，但在當下，我們往往無法分辨何者為何。我們之所以放棄，是因為相信自己已無法再以原本的方式繼續生活。從這個角度來看，放棄是一個關鍵時刻——是一種試圖開啟不同未來的行動。在《On Giving Up》中，Adam Phillips 細緻梳理各種「放棄」之間的斷裂與連結，引導我們直面一個核心問題：為了活得更真實、更有生命感，我們究竟必須放下什麼？——「當代最出色的散文風格家之一，可謂我們時代的愛默生。」—— John Banville——「當今以英語寫作最傑出的散文家。」—— John GrayFrom acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.To give up or not to give up?The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable.There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment - an attempt to make a different future.In On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive?'One of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time' John Banville'The best living essayist writing in English' John Gray

作者介紹

作者介紹 Adam PhillipsAdam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising 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 most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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最佳賣點 : ✦ 放棄，不是結束，而是重生的開始
精神分析師 Adam Phillips 以一貫敏銳而優雅的筆觸，帶領讀者重新思考「放棄」這件事：我們放下壞習慣、關係、期待，甚至某種自我形象——但這些選擇，究竟是逃避，還是通往更自由人生的轉機？
在模糊的界線之間，他揭示每一次「放棄」其實都是一次關鍵轉向——當我們

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