LEADER 02769nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910814149503321 005 20240314023809.0 010 $a0-8047-8830-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804788304 035 $a(CKB)2670000000398226 035 $a(EBL)1332612 035 $a(OCoLC)855504083 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950687 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12421532 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950687 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10879804 035 $a(PQKB)11390944 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1332612 035 $a(DE-B1597)564716 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804788304 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1332612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10741746 035 $a(OCoLC)859382872 035 $a(OCoLC)1198932011 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000398226 100 $a20130212d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRequiem for the ego$b[electronic resource] $eFreud and the origins of postmodernism /$fAlfred I. Tauber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8829-4 311 $a0-8047-8744-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 De?sirants: Whither the Ego?; 7. Wittgenstein and the Quandary of Private Language; Conclusion: Reason and Its Discontents; Notes; References; Index 330 $aRequiem 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 606 $aEgo (Psychology)$xPhilosophy 606 $aPsychoanalysis and philosophy 615 0$aEgo (Psychology)$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and philosophy. 676 $a150.19/52092 700 $aTauber$b Alfred I$052944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814149503321 996 $aRequiem for the ego$94025180 997 $aUNINA