Becoming a subject : reflections in philosophy and psychoanalysis / Marcia Cavell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavell, Marcia, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Subjectivity.

Psychoanalysis.

Philosophy.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 182 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A "subject" is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an "I," taking in the world from a subjective perspective; an agent, doing things for reasons, sometimes self-reflective, and able to assume responsibility for herself and some of her actions. If this is an ideal, how does a person become a subject, and what might stand in the way? One of Marcia Cavell's guiding premises is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more empirical sort. Cavell brings together for the first time reflections in philosophy, findings in neuroscience, studies in infant development, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical vignettes from her own psychoanalytic practice.

Contents:

Neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and memory

The anxious animal

Keeping time : remembering, repeating, and working through

Triangulation : the social character of thought

On judgment

Self-reflections

Irrationality and self-transcendance

Freedom and understanding

Valuing emotions

Self-knowledge and self-discovery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-178) and index.

ISBN:

0199287082

OCLC:

62330808

Publisher Number:

9780199287086

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