THE ADAPTED SELF Book 2
by Ruth Ellerby · Fen Press
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About the book
The brain that wants is the brain our ancestors had; the world it wants in is new. The second book of The Adapted Self follows personality into appetite: the balance of pleasure and pain that resets with every reward, the difference between wanting a thing and wanting to be known, and the way an old wound becomes a hunger nothing within reach can fill. It moves from the chemistry of romance to a drugified world carried in every pocket, through the respectable addictions of work, wealth and perfection, to tolerance, secrecy and self-sabotage. It ends on what can be done: pleasure that is earned, the sweet spot between too little and too much, and binding the self you are to the self you want.