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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 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 there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make — and they don't always go, or come, together . . .

This sparkling book is about that fact.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 160
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-241-29177-1
  • EAN
  • 9780241291771
  • Release date
  • 2021