336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a timely and stimulating collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigating its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology. Marking a clear departure from the long-standing debate over whether Freudian thought is scientific or not, The Analytic Freud expands the framework of philosophical inquiry, demonstrating how fertile... Read more
Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: how right does psychoanalysis have to be?, PART I: Mind, 1. Psychoanalysis, metaphor and the concept of mind, 2. How far down does the will go?, 3. Freudian wish-fulfilment and sub-intentional explanation, 4. Keeping time: Freud on the temporality of mind, 5. Subject, object, world: some reflections on the Kleinian origins of the mind, 6. Freud’s Theory of Consciousness, PART II: Ethics, 7. Aristotelian akrasia, weakness of will and psychoanalytic regression, 8. Emotional agents, 9. Moral authenticity and the unconscious, PART III: Sexuality, 10. Freud on unconscious affects, mourning and the erotic mind, 11. Love and loss in Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia: a rereading, 12. Lucky in love: love and emotion, PART IV: Civilization, 13. Sublimation, love and creativity, 14. Freud and the rule of law: from Totem and Taboo to psychoanalytic jurisprudence, 15. The joke, the ‘as if’ and the statement, Author Index, Subject Index
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Levine, Michael
