Requiem for the ego [[electronic resource] ] : Freud and the origins of postmodernism / / Alfred I. Tauber

• Autore: Tauber Alfred I
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/52092
• Soggetto topico: Ego (Psychology) - Philosophy; Psychoanalysis and philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910463108503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II