On Wanting to Change av Adam Phillips

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<p><b>From the UK''s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.</b><br><br>We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.<br><br>We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.<br><br>We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.<br><br>So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don''t always go, or come, together . . . <br><br>This sparkling book is about that fact.</p>