02769nam 2200613Ia 450 991081414950332120240314023809.00-8047-8830-810.1515/9780804788304(CKB)2670000000398226(EBL)1332612(OCoLC)855504083(SSID)ssj0000950687(PQKBManifestationID)12421532(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950687(PQKBWorkID)10879804(PQKB)11390944(MiAaPQ)EBC1332612(DE-B1597)564716(DE-B1597)9780804788304(Au-PeEL)EBL1332612(CaPaEBR)ebr10741746(OCoLC)859382872(OCoLC)1198932011(EXLCZ)99267000000039822620130212d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRequiem for the ego[electronic resource] Freud and the origins of postmodernism /Alfred I. Tauber1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20131 online resource (329 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-8829-4 0-8047-8744-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Désirants: Whither the Ego?; 7. Wittgenstein and the Quandary of Private Language; Conclusion: Reason and Its Discontents; Notes; References; IndexRequiem 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 diEgo (Psychology)PhilosophyPsychoanalysis and philosophyEgo (Psychology)Philosophy.Psychoanalysis and philosophy.150.19/52092Tauber Alfred I52944MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814149503321Requiem for the ego4025180UNINA