Missing Out : In Praise of the Unlived Life (Hardcover)

from lisahistory

I read this looking for ways in which people who have regrets about their unlived lives can learn from that, or even, as the title implies, praise and appreciate it. Unfortunately, this book didn't ever get to that issue, and its prose was torturous.

from starbox

"We only want what isn't there" By sally tarbox on 28 August 2017 Format: Audible Audio Edition I have no background in psychoanalysis but was sufficiently intrigued by this work to pick it up at the library. Taking as its topic the 'unlived life' - that never-to-be fulfilled realm of possibiliti...

from freelancer_frank

This is a book about the pre-conditions of human motivation. The title and sub-title are somewhat misleading. The work is not so much an examination of what might have been, and a detailed analysis of the forces that account for our need to question possibilities in the first place. Phillips is i...

from freelancer_frank

This is a book about the pre-conditions of human motivation. The title and sub-title are somewhat misleading. The work is not so much an examination of what might have been, and a detailed analysis of the forces that account for our need to question possibilities in the first place. Phillips is i...