{"product_id":"9780465056767-darwins-worms-on-life-stories","title":"Darwin's Worms","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoth Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. This book uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings - suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Adam Phillips has been called \"the psychotherapist of the floating world\" and \"the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness.\" His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, \"the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death.\" In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40867561603169,"sku":"9780465056767","price":15.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/add6025f80fc2d2b719cbf0e2b9ce919.png?v=1686769416","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780465056767-darwins-worms-on-life-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}