Michael Walter, 1951 in Wiesbaden geboren, studierte Anglistik und Philosophie und arbeitet seit 1978 als freier Übersetzer. Er hat bislang über 60 Werke nahezu aller literarischen Genres übersetzt. 1988 wurde er in die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung als ordentliches Mitglied gewählt. Für seine Übersetzungen erhielt er zahlreiche Preise. Michael Walter lebt und arbeitet seit 1980 in München.
40 Ebooks by Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips: On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to tears. Where is that ticklish line between pleasure and pain? Why do we risk its being crossed? Does …
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Adam Phillips: On Flirtation
Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted – to people, to ideas, to methods – and the pleasures of uncertainty. These buoyant essays promote a …
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€11.15
Adam Phillips: Monogamy
'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 …
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€11.17
Adam Phillips: Houdini”s Box
Why are we all so spellbound by ideas of escape – and yet so dismissive of mere escapism? Houdini's Box explores four different escape artists. There is the case history of a little girl who is …
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€8.83
Adam Phillips: Equals
Does psychoanalysis teach us that freedom and equality are impossible for human beings?We would all like to think of ourselves as freedom-loving, egalitarian and democratic. Yet Freud has taught us …
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€11.26
Adam Phillips: Promises, Promises
Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new …
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€11.20
Adam Phillips: Monogamie
… aber drei sind ein Paar
Warum eigentlich halten wir Monogamie für selbstverständlich?
Wie gehen wir mit unseren »unerlaubten« Wünschen um? Jeder weiß, daß man – gleichgültig, wie sehr man seinen …
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€11.99
J. G. Ballard: Running Wild
A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley sees a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella, newly reissued with an introduction from Adam Phillips.Pangbourne Village …
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€7.71
Phillips Adam Phillips: Becoming Freud
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud—Freud up until the age of …
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€13.76
Michael Eigen: Electrified Tightrope
This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It emphasizes positive contributions to growth of self made by seemingly …
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€40.37
Michael Eigen: Electrified Tightrope
This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It emphasizes positive contributions to growth of self made by seemingly …
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€40.46
Adam Phillips: Animate to Harmony
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, lea …
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€56.36
Adam Phillips: Animate to Harmony
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, lea …
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€56.20
Sham Bhangal & Chad Corbin: Flash MX Most Wanted
Some friends of ED books concentrate on more serious aspects of Flash; this one concentrates on the fun. Flash can be used for many purposes, but making visually stunning effects to impress your …
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€34.96
Adam Phillips: Side Effects
Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don t mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips & Barbara Taylor: On Kindness
The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind’s ‘greatest delight’ – and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers …
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€6.99
Sigmund Freud: Penguin Freud Reader
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud’s explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: Going Sane
Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: Winnicott
D.W. Winnicott s remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: On Balance
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain’s most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns – many centred around the …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: Missing Out
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips.We all have two lives – the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived – the person we have failed …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: Unforbidden Pleasures
Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: One Way and Another
A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called ”Britain”s foremost psychoanalytic writer” ”Phillips”s prose is poetic in the best sense: it is …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: In Writing
Incisive and highly original, an investigation of the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: Attention Seeking
”Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is …
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€6.49
Phillips Adam Phillips & Bersani Leo Bersani: Intimacies
Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as …
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€26.04
Adam Phillips: On Wanting to Change
From the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change – to become our best selves, through …
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€6.99
Adam Phillips: The Cure for Psychoanalysis
The book presents a day-long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes additional contributions from John Bliss, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Edward Corrigan, Holly Levenkron, Kathleen Del Mar Miller, …
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€19.19
Adam Phillips: On Getting Better
To talk about getting better – about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer – is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we wan …
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€8.49
Adam Phillips & William Potter: Can Squirrels Waterski?
Can rats learn to surf? How fat was the fattest cat? How many Lego bricks would it take to reach the Moon?Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more in this fascinating fact book. …
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€2.48
Sigmund Freud: Wild Analysis
‘Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient’s capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in …
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€11.99
Roland Barthes: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic …
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€9.49
Adam Phillips: On Giving Up
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.To give up or not to give up?The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never …
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€14.99
Christopher Bollas: Christopher Bollas Reader
Christopher Bollas is well respected and has published widely in the field As well as 14 previously published ‘classic’ Bollas essays, two chapters appear here for the first time This will appeal to …
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€48.31
Christopher Bollas: Christopher Bollas Reader
Christopher Bollas is well respected and has published widely in the field As well as 14 previously published ‘classic’ Bollas essays, two chapters appear here for the first time This will appeal to …
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€48.44
Adam Phillips: Sobre desistir
Desistir ou não desistir? Eis a questão. A pergunta pode parecer simples, mas a resposta nunca é fácil. Abandonar vícios é uma coisa; desistir da própria vida é outra bem diferente. Enquanto abrir …
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€7.49
