Missing Out

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a pretty deep dive into the psychology of frustration, satisfaction, and getting in, out, and away with things. Not really what I was expecting from the title. However, I think that it gave some very good thinking points on how to analyze art (as a reflection of our own lives) and how things like frustration can be motivational at times and satisfaction can be violent. His sentences are very convoluted. I think that philosophers think that the more dependent clauses they have the more intellectual they will sound, or like they don't want to communicate their ideas to anyone who doesn't have the patience to parse out which comma splice goes where. However, I did find his ideas novel when it comes to exploring works of literature.

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