keep your balance than to lose it.â? In these exhilarating and casually brilliant essays, the philosopher and psychoanalyst examines literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies to reveal the paradoxes inherent in our appetites and fears. How do we know when enough is enough? Are there times when too much is just right? Why is Cinderellaâ??s biggest problem not the prince but other women? What can Richard IIIâ??s furious sense of his own helplessness tell us of our own desires? On Balance shows Phillipsâ??s bravura gift for linking disparate ideas and the dreamers that dreamed them into something beautiful, revelatory, and essential.

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