Missing Out is a meditation on reality & opportunity by Adam Phillips We all have two lives
- the life we live & the life of our fantasies But it is the life unlived
- the person we have failed to be
- that can trouble & even haunt us In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves into the gap between who we are & who we are not to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life Praise for Adam Phillips'" Phillipsian" would evoke a vivid paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head only to find you were holding it by the tail' Lisa Appignanesi Guardian' He's brilliant' John Carey' Phillips radiates infectious charm' Sunday Times Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst & the author of several previous books all widely acclaimed including On Kissing Tickling & Being Bored Going Sane & Side Effects His most recent book is On Kindness which was co-written with historian Barbara Taylor