Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind

✍ Scribed by Man Cheung Chung, Colin Feltham

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to psychoanalysis: the philosophy of mind; the notion of changing oneself; religion; the notion of interdisciplinary links with psychoanalytic knowledge; post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge and challenges to psychoanalytic methodology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
1 Examining the Nature of Psychoanalytic Knowledge......Page 14
2 Kant and Freud......Page 33
3 Psychoanalysis as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis as Worldview......Page 53
4 ‘Some Unimaginable Substratum’: A Contemporary Introduction to Freud’s Philosophy of Mind......Page 67
5 Freud and the Neurological Unconscious......Page 89
6 The Etiology of Emotion and Ossification of Self: You Can’t Change People because People Don’t Change......Page 109
7 The Illusion of a Future......Page 133
8 Emotion, Evolution and Conflict......Page 145
Freud, Object Relations, Agency and the Self......Page 170
10 Autonomy and the Problem of Suffering: Tragedy and Transcendence in Psychoanalytic Discourse......Page 194
11 The Self in Psychoanalysis: Heinz Kohut and Narcissism – a Critique......Page 212
12 Challenges to Psychoanalytic Methodology......Page 232
Name Index......Page 252
Subject Index......Page 257