Philosophy and working-through the past : a psychoanalytic approach to social pathologies / Jeffrey M. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jeffrey M., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy and Working-through the Past defends the relevance to philosophy of the implications of Freud's conception of object loss, especially his provocative discussions of mourning and melancholia. It engages with ongoing debates concerning the relevance of psychoanalysis to social theory, and suggests that emancipation from pathological culture be conceived as a mournful process of working-through the past.

Contents:

Freud: sociality, fixation, and working-through

Working-through the past in Kant, Marx and Freud

Loss and recognition: Axel Honneth's reading of psychoanalysis

Freud's critique of philosophy: animism in Husserl's crisis

Melancholic Da-sein: loss-less existence in being and time

Ideological subjection, panic, and subversion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8285-4

OCLC:

866839142