000			01690nam a2200193 4500
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008			191010b2018 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781783782055
082			_a153.35 COH-J
100			_aCohen, Josh
245			_aNot working : _bwhy we have stop / _cJosh Cohen
260			_aLondon _bGranta Publications _c2018
300			_a260 p.
365			_aINR _b599.00.
500			_a'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning out. In a culture that tacitly coerces us into blind activity, the art of doing nothing is disappearing. Inactivity can induce lethargy and indifference, but is also a condition of imaginative freedom and creativity. Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, and considers four faces of inertia - the burnout, the slob, the daydreamer and the slacker. Drawing on his personal experiences and on stories from his consulting room, while punctuating his discussions with portraits of figures associated with the different forms of inactivity - Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Emily Dickinson and David Foster Wallace - Cohen gets to the heart of the apathy so many of us feel when faced with the demands of contemporary life, and asks how we might live a different and more fulfilled existence.
650			_aPsychoanalysis
650			_aSuccess
650			_aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650			_aCreative ability