The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Michael P. Levine

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 and mutually enriching the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis can be.The essays are divided into four clear sections, addressing the implications of Freud for philosophy of mind, ethics, sexuality and civilisation. The authors discuss the problems psychoanalysis poses for contemporary philosophy as well as what philosophy can learn from Freud's legacy and undeniable influence. For instance, The Analytic Freud discusses the problems presented by pyschoanalytic theories of the mind for the philosophy of language; the issues which current theories of mind and meaning raise for psychoanalytic accounts of emotion, metaphor, the will and self-deception; the question whether psychoanalytic theory is essential in understanding sexuality, love, humour and the tensions which arise out of personal relationships.The Analytic Freud is a critical and thorough examination of Freudian and post-Freudian theory, adding a welcome and significant dimension to the debate between psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction: how right does psychoanalysis have to be? MICHAEL P.LEVINE......Page 14
Mind......Page 22
Psychoanalysis, metaphor and the concept of mind JIM HOPKINS......Page 24
How far down does the will go? GRAEME MARSHALL......Page 49
Freudian wish-fulfilment and sub-intentional explanation TAMAS PATAKI......Page 62
Keeping time: Freud on the temporality of mind MARCIA CAVELL......Page 98
Subject, object, world: some reflections on the Kleinian origins of the mind DAVID SNELLING......Page 114
Freud's Theory of Consciousness PAUL REDDING......Page 132
Ethics......Page 146
Aristotelian akrasia, weakness of will and psychoanalytic regression MICHAEL STOCKER with ELIZABETH HEGEMAN......Page 148
Emotional agents NANCY SHERMAN......Page 167
Moral authenticity and the unconscious GRANT GILLETT......Page 190
Sexuality......Page 206
Freud on unconscious affects, mourning and the erotic mind AMLIE OKSENBERG RORTY......Page 208
Love and loss in Freud's Mourning and Melancholia: a rereading JENNIFER RADDEN......Page 224
Lucky in love: love and emotion MICHAEL P.LEVINE......Page 244
Civilization......Page 272
Sublimation, love and creativity MARGUERITE LA CAZE......Page 274
Freud and the rule of law: from Totem and Taboo to psychoanalytic jurisprudence JOS BRUNNER......Page 290
The joke, the 'as if' and the statement EDMOND WRIGHT......Page 307
Author Index......Page 325
Subject Index......Page 329