Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind: Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century
- ISBN-10
- 1782201793
- ISBN-13
- 9781782201793
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Simon Boag, Linda A. W. Brakel, Vesa Talvitie
Description
Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud's philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic theory makes bold claims about the significance of unconscious mental processes and the wish-fulfilling activity of the mind, citing their importance for understanding the nature of dreams and explaining both normal and pathological behaviour. However, since Freud's initial work, both modern psychology and philosophy have had much to say about the merits of Freudian thinking. Developments in psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis raise new challenges and questions concerning Freud's theory of mind. This book addresses the psychoanalytic concept of mind in the 21st century via a joint scientific and philosophical appraisal of psychoanalytic theory. It provides a fresh critical appraisal and reflection on Freudian concepts, as well as addressing how current evidence and scientific thinking bear upon Freudian theory. The book centres upon the major concepts in psychoanalysis, including the notion of unconscious mental processes and wish-fulfilment and their relationship to dreams, fantasy, attachment processes, and neuroscience.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-05-08
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- Routledge
Similar books
-
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy
By Marcia CavellLondon : Academic Press . Locke , J. 1961. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . London : J. W. Yolton . Lovibond , S. 1983. Realism and Imagination in Ethics . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Lussier , A. 1991.
-
Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1: Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States
By Jerome C. WakefieldThis book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud’s implicit argument for unconscious mental states.
-
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Origins of Meaning: Pre-Reflective Intentionality in the Psychoanalytic View of the Mind
By David SnellingThe phenomenological nomenological notion of intentionality has the sense of the meaningful relation of consciousness (subject) to its objects: the intentional relation is the relation in which the object has a meaning for the subject.
-
Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis
By Linda Brakel... whereas the former is consistent with Snowdon being sharp and only “Snowdon” vague.' Among the most widely cited arguments for vagueness existing in our concepts, but not in the world, is the following from Gareth Evans (1978/1997, ...
-
Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis
By Ray Brassier, Christian Kerslake... the sinthome can be created: the sinthome is created out of the material determining the symptom, 'but in a purified form' (ibid, 119). the symptom, then, is the pre-analytic relation to jouissance and the Other, the contingent creation ...
-
The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind
By Linda A.W. BrakelAnd further surprising to Smith, Smith, too, happens to have ten coins inhis pocket. Can Smith be said to have known that “the man whowillget the job has ten coins in his pocket”? How can this—Smith's justifiedtrue belief—count as ...
-
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
By Marcia CavellThey burrow into central issues in moral philosophy: freedom of the will, the 'self', self-knowledge, the relations between reason and passion, between autonomy and self-knowledge, issues that form roughly the second half of the book.
-
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem
By Jon Mills... as a trajectory or occupation (Besetzung) of psychic energy, emanates “from within” and is directed into consciousness, where it receives perceptions and passes them into the mnemonic reservoirs of the unconscious abyss.
-
The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry
By Gemma Fiumara CorradiThis book is an original and provocative contribution to the rapidly growing literature on the neglected "affective" dimensions of modern thought.
-
Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious
By D.L. SmithThe book charts Freud's intellectual development as he deals with the mind-body problem, the nature of consciousness, folk psychology versus scientific psychology, the relationship between language and thought, realism and antirealism in ...