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Autore |
Tauber Alfred I |
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Titolo |
Requiem for the ego [[electronic resource] ] : Freud and the origins of postmodernism / / Alfred I. Tauber |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ego (Psychology) - Philosophy |
Psychoanalysis and philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Psychoanalytic Ego; 2. Prospects of Enlightenment; 3. Adorno: Reconceiving the Ego; 4. Heidegger's Confrontation; 5. Lacan's "Return to Freud"; 6. The DeĢsirants: Whither the Ego?; 7. Wittgenstein and the Quandary of Private Language; Conclusion: Reason and Its Discontents; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing di |
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