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  • Published: 16 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241291771
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $21.00
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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.

  • Published: 16 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241291771
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $21.00
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