{"id":1904,"date":"2009-10-12T05:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T10:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2009-10-12T05:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T10:46:02","slug":"repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on our fascination with excess &#124; Books &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When we are greedy, the psychoanalyst Harold Boris writes, we are in a state of mind in which we &#8220;wish and hope to have everything all the time&#8221;; <strong>greed &#8220;wants everything, nothing less will do&#8221;<\/strong>, and so &#8220;it cannot be satisfied&#8221;. Appetite, he writes in a useful distinction, is inherently satisfiable.<strong> So the excess of appetite we call greed is actually a form of despair. <\/strong>Greed turns up when we lose faith in our appetites, when what we need is not available. In this view it is not that appetite is excessive; it is that our fear of frustration is excessive. <strong>Excess is a sign of frustration; we are only excessive wherever there is a frustration we are unaware of, and a fear we cannot bear.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/aug\/08\/excess-adam-phillips\">Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on our fascination with excess | Books | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we are greedy, the psychoanalyst Harold Boris writes, we are in a state of mind in which we &#8220;wish and hope to have everything all the time&#8221;; greed &#8220;wants everything, nothing less will do&#8221;, and so &#8220;it cannot be satisfied&#8221;. Appetite, he writes in a useful distinction, is inherently satisfiable. So the excess of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on our fascination with excess &#124; Books &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}