On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
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On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The available edition details are 1998 • Harvard Univ Pr • 160 pages.
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