{"id":2482,"date":"2009-12-11T04:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2009-12-11T04:06:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T09:06:19","slug":"repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/11\/repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian-2\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on our fascination with excess &#124; Books &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Excesses of appetite are the ways we conceal from ourselves what we hunger for. Kafka&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"A Hunger Artist\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Hunger_Artist\">Hunger Artist<\/a> &#8211; the man in the story of that name, who does performance-fasting for a living &#8211; is asked why he devoted his life to starving himself in public; he couldn&#8217;t help doing it, he says, &#8220;because I couldn&#8217;t find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you and everyone else&#8221;.<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<p>loved this article! I&#8217;m reposting my favorite line. Hope you can read the whole thing, don&#8217;t agree with a lot, but it made me introspect!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/aac5635b-f4c8-4587-a3cc-6c1076ec8e18\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excesses of appetite are the ways we conceal from ourselves what we hunger for. Kafka&#8217;s Hunger Artist &#8211; the man in the story of that name, who does performance-fasting for a living &#8211; is asked why he devoted his life to starving himself in public; he couldn&#8217;t help doing it, he says, &#8220;because I couldn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/11\/repostpsychoanalyst-adam-phillips-on-our-fascination-with-excess-books-the-guardian-2\/\" 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":[6,7,26,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-best-sentence","category-links","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}