{"product_id":"darwins-worms-on-life-stories-and-death-stories-9780465056767","title":"Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories","description":"Adam Phillips has been called \"the psychotherapist of the floating world\" and \"the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness.\" His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, \"the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death.\" In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e has been called \"the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness.\" Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as \u003ci\u003eWinnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHoudini's Box\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460291596562,"sku":"9780465056767","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9a0f2a3-89e6-4d23-85eb-be48bfeed3c8.jpg?v=1730035832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/darwins-worms-on-life-stories-and-death-stories-9780465056767","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}