1st Edition
The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis
By Vesa Talvitie
Copyright 2012
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, the author approaches the issue from the perspective of the foundations of behavioural sciences in general. He studies the nature of psychological terms and explanations, and the relation between neuroscience and psychology. Due to the wide perspective, the... Read more
Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model -- What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories) -- On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms—neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists" -- The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness—on psychoanalytic metaphysics -- Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed—why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain -- Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?
Biography
Talvitie, Vesa
