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Monogamy

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Description for Monogamy Paperback. To discuss monogamy is to discuss most of the things that matter to us. In this accessible work, the author explores why relationships go wrong, how monogamy comes with infidelity built in, and why there is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMU; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.

'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.'

All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps people together and why they should stay together. Now, in a book of 121 aphorisms, Adam Phillips asks why we all believe in monogamy, and why we find it so difficult to think about.

Everyone knows that most people, however much they may love their partner, are capable of loving and desiring more than one person at ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571179893
SKU
V9780571179893
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud. Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor ... Read more

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