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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812947103321

Titolo

Rereading Freud : psychoanalysis through philosophy / / edited by Jon Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8528-5

1-4237-3946-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillsJon <1964->

Disciplina

150.19/52/092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Logic and Illogic of the Dream-Work -- Freud’S Dream Theory and Social Constructivis -- The Bodily Unconscious in Freud’S “Three Essays” -- The Ego Does not Resemble the Cadaver: Image and Self in Freud -- The ‘Alchemy of Identification’: Narcissism, Melancholia, Femininity -- The Ontology of Denial -- The I and The It -- Temporality and the Therapeutic Subject: The Phenomenology of Transference, Remembering, and Working-Through -- Freud and Kierkegaard on Genocide and the Death Drive -- The Unconscious Life of Race: Freudian Resources for Critical Race Theory -- About the Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rereading Freud assembles eminent philosophical scholars and clinical practitioners from continental, pragmatic, feminist, and psychoanalytic paradigms to examine Freud's metapsychology. Fundamentally distorted and misinterpreted by generations of English speaking commentators, Freud's theories are frequently misunderstood within psychoanalysis today. This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on several of Freud's most influential theories, including the nature and structure of dreams; infantile sexuality; drive and defense; ego development; symptom formation; feminine psychology; the therapeutic process; death; and the question of race. In



so doing, they shed light on the ontological commitments Freud introduces in his metapsychology and the implications generated for engaging theoretical, clinical, and applied modes of philosophical inquiry.