Everything that has been written about forbidden pleasures. What about the pleasures that are not forbidden? Society is fascinated by taboos - we spend our lives chasing illicit pleasures - but no one pays much attention to all the non-forbidden pleasures that are available every day. Could we be gaining just as many rewards from these unnoticed, non-forbidden pleasures as from the much-publicized forbidden ones - or even more? Starting with Oscar Wilde, Adam Phillips elegantly reveals all the meanings and implications of the Non-Forbidden, from Genesis to Freud and his 20th-century colleagues. Non-Forbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological, and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality.