Abstract
ABSTRACT This article presents a detailed commentary on Adam Phillips' The Beast in the Nursery (1998), the book among his body of works that focuses perhaps the most directly upon childhood, childhood desires, and the legacy of children's experiences for the lives of adults. In particular, the discussion reviews Phillips' essays that examine issues about sustaining a sense of interest in the worth of life, the child's attainment of language and the loss of the “unspoken” sense of self, language as a form of “hinting,” feelings of humiliation and rage, and essentialist versus non-essentialist theories of life.
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