1st Edition

The Conscious in Psychoanalysis

By Antonio A. Semi Copyright 2007
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

145 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on consciousness in psychoanalysis. It deals with judgement, the psychic activity that Sigmund Freud already called primary judgement in his "Project for a Scientific Psychology", and then with secondary judgement.

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series -- Foreword -- Introduction: why study consciousness? -- Consciousness and intellectual work -- Towards a metapsychology of consciousness -- Figures of speech, from natural discourse to associative discourse -- Consciousness and the problem of dualism/monism -- Sleep and consciousness -- Consciousness and the unconscious

Biography

A. Semi, Antonio