Hutton Honors College

On flirting, tickling, and Freud—Pizza discussion supper with British essayist and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips.

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.

Adam Phillips, a post-Freudian psychoanalyst, has been described by an IU faculty member as "a philosopher of human aspiration and happiness" and his books carry such intriguing titles as On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life; Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape; and Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories. Quoted in a New Statesman profile, he wrote therapy can teach us "to accept frustration, to tolerate dissatisfaction. It can teach you to bear too much." Self-knowledge should not be "a consolation prize for injustice." Instead, his aim is to teach people to "transform their worlds." Currently in private practice, he is the general editor of The New Penguin Freud, a new translation of the writings of Sigmund Freud. Join him for a wide-ranging discussion of human psychology.

On campus as a Patten Lecturer, Mr. Phillips will deliver two public lectures (titles to be announced), on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m., and Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. Both will be in Rawles 100 and will be free and open to the public.

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