Yasak Olmayan Hazlar

Psychologists and psychoanalysts generally talk about forbidden pleasures and try to explore people's inner world through them. Since prohibitions often stimulate desire, forbidden pleasures always come to the fore and are always desired more. What about pleasures that are not forbidden? Do we know their value, or does their value in our eyes decrease because they are not prohibited? “This book is about whether pleasures that are not forbidden have more to tell us about pleasure than pleasures that are forbidden,” says Adam Phillips. “If this were true, all the things we take so seriously would lose their seriousness. The tyranny of the forbidden comes not from the fact that it forbids things, but from the fact that it tells us what we want to do - we want to do what is forbidden. However, he does not give any orders that are not forbidden.” Phillips deals with burning issues such as obedience, self-criticism and whether life is worth living, in the context of forbidden and non-forbidden pleasures. It encourages us to think about the unforbidden pleasure of obedience, as well as the forbidden pleasure of disobedience. Self-criticism, he says, often means condemning oneself unjustly, whereas brutal self-criticism itself can be a pleasure, a pleasure that is not forbidden. And he asks all of us: “Is life unbearable or are we forbidden from enjoying it? And if life is also a forbidden pleasure, who forbade it and why?”

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translation: Saliha Nilüfer
Prepared by: Özde Duygu Gürkan

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Printing Year: 2017

Size: 14x21

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 160

Media Type: Paperback