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Autore: |
Tauber Alfred I
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Titolo: |
Requiem for the ego : Freud and the origins of postmodernism / / Alfred I. Tauber
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Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina: | 150.19/52092 |
Soggetto topico: | Ego (Psychology) - Philosophy |
Psychoanalysis and philosophy | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Requiem for the ego ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8047-8830-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814149503321 |
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