Wish-fulfilment in philosophy and psychoanalysis : the tyranny of desire / Tamas Pataki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pataki, Tamas, author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic explorations series.

Psychoanalytic Explorations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire.

Desire (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myth, and religious illusions. The concept's theoretical exploration has been largely neglected within psychoanalysis since, but contemporary philosophers have recognised it as providing an explanatory model for much of the kind of irrational behaviour so problematic for psychiatry, social psycholog

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I Theory; 1 Wish and wish-fulfilment; 1.1 Introduction: wish and wish-fulfilment; 1.2 The singularity of Freudian wish-fulfilment; 1.3 A very brief history of our subject with polemical remarks; 1.4 Some basic concepts for the philosophy of psychoanalysis; 1.5 Four aporia and the outline of an argument; 1.6 The psychoanalysis of philosophy; Notes; 2 Freud's conception of wish-fulfilment; 2.1 Freud's originality; 2.2 Drive and wish; 2.3 The basic model of Freudian wish-fulfilment

2.4 Engrossment and belief2.5 An aside on belief; 2.6 Belief and phantasy; 2.7 Some grounds for intentionalism; Notes; 3 Problems with non-intentionalism; 3.1 Reprise; 3.2 Some general problems with non-intentionalism; 3.3 More problems for non-intentionalism; 3.4 Wish-fulfi lment without belief; 3.5 Wish-fulfi lment and 'belief-like' representations; 3.6 Increasing complexity: enactment; 3.7 The omnipotence of thought; 3.8 Wish-fulfi lment restricted; 3.9 Wish-fulfi lment declined; Notes; 4 Intention and deliberation in Freudian wish-fulfilment; 4.1 Towards intentionalism

4.2 Unconscious intention4.3 Unconscious deliberation; 4.4 Unconscious deliberation and dissociation; 4.5 Unconscious deliberation and symbolism; 4.6 Dissociation again; 4.7 Sartre's censor argument resolved; Notes; 5 The self in self-solicitude; 5.1 Reprise; 5.2 A very brief history of the divided self; 5.3 Freud and the structure of mind; 5.4 Indulging in metaphor, hypostatising phantasy?; 5.5 Fairbairn; 5.6 Egos, selves and personations; 5.7 Personation, self-solicitude and Freudian wish-fulfilment; Notes; PART II Applications; 6 Self-deception and delusion; 6.1 Self-deception

6.2 Subintentionalism again6.3 Self-deception and Freudian wish-fulfilment; 6.4 Delusion; 6.5 Delusion as Freudian wish-fulfilment; Notes; 7 Religion; 7.1 Freud on religion; 7.2 Distinctions; 7.3 The religious and the religiose; 7.4 Fundamentalism and the religiose; 7.5 The religiose mind; 7.6 Religion as Freudian wish-fulfilment; Notes; 8 Writing as redemption; 8.1 Exhibits of loss; 8.2 Some psychoanalytic approaches to loss in art; 8.3 Illusion and the internal audience; Notes; 9 The insanity defence; 9.1 Intention and excuse; 9.2 Mental illness and excuse

9.3 A very brief history of intention in insanity9.4 McNaughtan; 9.5 Intention in madness; Notes; 10 A word on psychiatry; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-90375-1

1-138-63751-3

0-203-55308-X

1-135-90368-9

9780203553084

OCLC:

880197508