Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips – Review
How should we read psychoanalysis? Many of its great theorists – Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan – trained as doctors, and their successors tend to follow the rigid formulae of academic papers. However, for Adam Phillips, a practising psychoanalyst who is also a perceptive literary critic, it is "more illuminating" to consider psychoanalysts as poets "rather than failed or aspiring scientists".
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