Unconsciousness Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Dorothée Legrand, Dylan Trigg (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Contributions To Phenomenology 88
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a series of essays that explore the concept of unconsciousness as it is situated between phenomenology and psychoanalysis. A leading goal of the collection is to carve out phenomenological dimensions within psychoanalysis and, equally, to carve out psychoanalytical dimensions within phenomenology. The book examines the nature of unconsciousness and the role it plays in structuring our sense of self. It also looks at the extent to which the unconscious marks the body as it functions outside of experience as well as manifests itself in experience. In addition, the book explores the relationship between unconsciousness and language, particularly if unconsciousness exists prior to language or if the concept can only be understood through speech. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars, each of whom grounds their investigations in a nuanced mastery of the traditional voices of their fields. These contributors provide diverse viewpoints that challenge both the phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions in their relation to unconsciousness.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Husserl’s Layered Concept of the Human Person: Conscious and Unconscious....Pages 3-23
Reflections on the Phenomenological Unconscious in Generative Phenomenology....Pages 25-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of the Unconscious in the Late Manuscripts....Pages 41-59
Repression and Operative Unconsciousness in Phenomenology of Perception ....Pages 61-74
Merleau-Ponty’s Nonverbal Unconscious....Pages 75-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Is There a Phenomenology of Unconsciousness? Being, Nature, Otherness in Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas....Pages 95-111
Phenomenology of the Inapparent....Pages 113-131
From the Night, the Spectre....Pages 133-140
Phenomenology and the Problem of the Inhuman: Psychologism, Correlationism, and the Ethics of Absolute Materiality....Pages 141-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Hypnagogia, Anxiety, Depersonalization: A Phenomenological Perspective....Pages 163-179
Merleau-Ponty’s Non-Exclusively-Verbal Unconscious: Affect Figurability and Gender....Pages 181-207
The Unconscious and the Non-linguistic Mode of Thinking....Pages 209-221
A Broken Self-Possession: Responsive Agency in Habits....Pages 223-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Surprise as a Phenomenal Marker of Heart-Unconscious....Pages 239-259
This Immense Fascination with the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Surrealism....Pages 261-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-281

✦ Subjects

Phenomenology;Philosophy of Mind;Psychoanalysis