Darwin's worms

Author: Adam Phillips
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book is a peculiar Western book about life and death, ranked as one of the New York Times' Best Books, the Los Angeles Times' Best Book of the Year, and highly praised by major media and cultural circles in both the UK and the US. It is believed that Phillips' influence on Freudian or post-Freudian thought holds the same importance as Gould's for paleontology, and Kevles-Thomas' for molecular biology. Phillips is therefore hailed as "one of the greatest psychoanalysts of our time." From the moment of birth, humans are destined for death. How much do we actually know about the nature of death! Can humans determine the way of their death by their own will! Darwin and Freud were both figures who profoundly changed human history. They unveiled the veil of God, eliminating the mysterious barriers between humans and nature. Adam Phillips, a contemporary important psychoanalyst, explores the stories of life and death using Darwin and Freud as examples. Darwin, throughout his life, was deeply affected by the pain of losing loved ones, which led him to study why earthworms could survive even when their bodies were broken into several pieces. Freud, on the other hand, faced the moment of death with composure. From this, Phillips concludes a view of life and death that is impermanent, believing that living beings must endure continuous loss, and that loss and death are, in fact, part of life. Adam Phillips is known as the "psychoanalyst of the floating world" and the "philosopher with the most joyful philosophy."