Rereading Freud : psychoanalysis through philosophy / edited by Jon Mills.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mills, Jon, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rereading Freud assembles eminent philosophical scholars and clinical practitioners from continental, pragmatic, feminist, and psychoanalytic paradigms to examine Freud's metapsychology. Fundamentally distorted and misinterpreted by generations of English speaking commentators, Freud's theories are frequently misunderstood within psychoanalysis today. This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on several of Freud's most influential theories, including the nature and structure of dreams; infantile sexuality; drive and defense; ego development; symptom formation; feminine psychology; the therapeutic process; death; and the question of race. In so doing, they shed light on the ontological commitments Freud introduces in his metapsychology and the implications generated for engaging theoretical, clinical, and applied modes of philosophical inquiry.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Logic and Illogic of the Dream-Work

Freud’S Dream Theory and Social Constructivis

The Bodily Unconscious in Freud’S “Three Essays”

The Ego Does not Resemble the Cadaver: Image and Self in Freud

The ‘Alchemy of Identification’: Narcissism, Melancholia, Femininity

The Ontology of Denial

The I and The It

Temporality and the Therapeutic Subject: The Phenomenology of Transference, Remembering, and Working-Through

Freud and Kierkegaard on Genocide and the Death Drive

The Unconscious Life of Race: Freudian Resources for Critical Race Theory

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791485286

0791485285

9781423739463

1423739469

OCLC:

62739379