Terror for Beginners

The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst. Adam Phillips Lecture The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst. About the speaker Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today. The Irish novelist John Banville has him as 'one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'. Adam has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature since 2006. He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud, and author of more than 16 books of essays and studies from On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (1993) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014). His most recent books are On Giving Up (Penguin, 2024), Attention Seeking (Penguin, 2019), and In Writing (Penguin 2017). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you require more than 5 tickets, please contact the Events Team who will be happy to help. Please ensure you use the correct email address as this is where your ticket will be sent. If you do not provide the correct address, you will not receive the acknowledgement email or ticket.