On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips

From the UKs 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 politics or fitness or diet or therapy. We change all the time growing older and older and how we think about change changes over time too. We want to think of our lives as progress myths as narratives of positive personal growth at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks. So the Paperback softback