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Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious

✍ Scribed by David Livingstone Smith (auth.)

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
230
Series
Studies in Cognitive Systems 23
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind. Freud emerges as a sophisticated philosopher who addresses many of the central questions that concern contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists while anticipating many of their views. While still a student in Vienna, Freud was initiated into philosophy by Franz Brentano. The 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 psychology, and the nature of unconscious mental events.
The book also critically examines writings on Freud by Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Searle, demonstrating their weakness as interpretations and criticisms of Freud's position.
Readership: Philosophers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Freud’s Contact with Brentano....Pages 9-15
Freud, Lipps and Nietzsche....Pages 16-19
Freud and the Mind-Body Problem....Pages 20-32
Other Views of Freud’s Position on the Mind-Body Problem....Pages 33-47
The Unconscious....Pages 48-58
Justification: The Continuity Argument....Pages 59-70
Freud and Jackson: Dualism and Anti-Localizationism....Pages 71-80
Freud’s Theory of Consciousness....Pages 81-101
Animism, Realism and Anti-Realism....Pages 102-111
Freudian Functionalism....Pages 112-119
Characteristics of Unconscious Thinking....Pages 120-131
Wittgenstein and Macintyre: The Unconscious as ‘ Façon de Parler ’....Pages 132-136
John Searle: The Dispositional Unconscious....Pages 137-150
Freud Versus Searle....Pages 151-155
Donald Davidson: The Rational Unconscious....Pages 156-158
Freud Versus Davidson....Pages 159-176
Conclusions....Pages 177-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-221

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Mind; Interdisciplinary Studies; History; Modern Philosophy

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