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On March 15, 2014, Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS)1 invited Adam Phillips, author and psychoanalyst, to speak with the RAMS community. At this all-day event, he shared an unpublished essay on unforbidden pleasures and participated in three interviews about his work and his thoughts about psychoanalysis, community work, and culture. In the conversation featured here, Adam is interviewed about his recent book, One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays (2013, Hamish Hamilton).
Loong Kwok: This book, One Way and Another, is different from your other books, in that it's a collection of previous essays, along with new essays. I imagine that you had to go over all your previous writings to select the ones for this book. I was wondering, what was the process by which you chose them?
Adam Phillips: It's very difficult to know. Because, in a way, I chose the things that I liked most. I was urged by my publisher, understandably, that this should be in some way representative. It's hard to know what it'd be representative of, in a way. So I chose things that still engaged me that also seemed to me to carry through certain preoccupations. As you can imagine, it's not fascinating rereading all one's stuff.