January 1992 Issue [Readings] Obstacles and desire Download PDF Adjust Share by Adam Phillips, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Case studies Desire Frustration Psychology United States More from Adam Phillips Redeeming Time From Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, a book co-written with Stephen Greenblatt, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. The idea of the second chance is one… Good Grief From a symposium on the topic of loss, which was published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Threepenny Review. The cult of loss has many enthusiastic members. And as… Red Light Therapy By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books. Adjust Share