Nothing to it : reading Freud as a philosopher / Emmanuel Falque ; translation by Robert Vallier & William L. Connelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falque, Emmanuel, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Connelly, William L., translator.

Vallier, Robert, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ça n'a rien à voir. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Philosophy.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an ‘excess of meaning’, and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions. This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say ‘Nothing to It’ indicates that the ‘It’—or Freudian Id—is not visible as it never shows itself as a ‘phenomenon’. Such a reading of Freud exemplifies how psychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology’s development.

Contents:

Foreword by Philippe Van Haute

Preface

Opening Act Philosophizing in psychoanalysis

The doctrine of experience

The other Rubicon

The backlash

Introduction

Go take a look

Chapter One Keep moving, nothing to see

The end of the Enlightenment

Toward another paradigm

Collapse of the system

Chapter Two Beware of it

Conceiving the inconceivable

The disillusion of psychoanalysis

Primitive man

Chapter Three It’s not nothing

The drive at the frontier

Rooting in the organic

Presence and resistance

Chapter Four What is it?

A disturbing uncanny

Death and repetition

The anorganic

Chapter Five It concerns me

Being lived

The knight of the Id

Being there for something

Chapter Six It touches me

Where the Id was

The draining of the Zuyderzee

The great cavalcade

Conclusion What’s God have to do with it?

For the salvation of the Id

Apart from it

The realm of the Id

Epilogue Regarding all of it

Notes

Bibliography

Index rerum

Index nominum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-321-8

OCLC:

1140071579