Unforbidden Pleasures review – taking liberties

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips’s study of desire and restraint asks more questions than it answersThe Notting Hill psychoanalyst Adam Phillips sets aside one day a week from practice to write; Unforbidden Pleasures is his 20th book. He takes the subtle view that self-knowledge is a form of self-denial (to know oneself is to limit one’s possibilities) and calls his profession “an experiment in what your life might be like if you speak freely”. These ideas guide his appro