Article: Books: It's more important to ask questions than to give answers On Not Being Able to Sleep By Jacqueline Rose CHATTO pounds 20 pounds 18 (+ pounds 1.99 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122

Humans have a rapacious desire to know themselves. Questions about how we come to recognise and misrecognise ourselves attract us, and therefore you'd expect books asking such questions to be found on the bookshelves of the species. They ought, though, to be good questions: the shelf space must be earned. In this collection of diverse essays, reviews and conference papers, the critic and scholar Jacqueline Rose puts good questions to the human psyche: many of them are acute, some of them are painful, and most are infinitely worth asking.

She asks about big, immensely difficult matters: "Can we think about mothers and keep an open mind?" "How far are we awake when we sleep?" "How close can, ...

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