Adam Phillips

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1. Adam Phillips

   Author of Darwin's Worms, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites, Terrors and Experts

2. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Three essays on the theory of sexuality, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

3. D. W. Winnicott

   Author of Playing and reality, The Child, the Family, and the Outside World, Home Is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst

4. Jacques Lacan

   Author of Ecrits: A Selection, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

5. John Ashbery

   Author of Houseboat Days: Poems, Flow Chart, A Wave

6. Susan Sontag

   Author of Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls, Styles of Radical Will

7. Julia Kristeva

   Author of Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Black Sun, Tales of Love

8. William H. Gass

   Author of On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, Fiction and the Figures of Life, Habitations of the Word: Essays

9. George Steiner

   Author of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, Real Presences, Martin Heidegger

10. R. D. Laing

    Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Knots, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

11. Anne Carson

    Author of Eros the Bittersweet, Men in the Off Hours, Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan

12. Anthony Storr

    Author of Solitude: A Return to the Self, Music and the Mind, Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

13. Jean Laplanche

    Author of The Language of Psycho-Analysis, Life and Death in Psychoanalysis

14. Geoff Dyer

    Author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence, The Ongoing Moment

15. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs, The Logic of Sense, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 30)

16. Leo Bersani

    Author of The Freudian Body, Intimacies

17. Gaston Bachelard

    Author of The Poetics of Space, Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Poetics of Reverie

18. Edward W. Said

    Author of Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures, The World, the Text, and the Critic, On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

19. John Berger

    Author of Once in Europa, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, Selected Essays of John Berger

20. Slavoj Žižek

    Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, On Belief, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor