The missed conversation : Husserl, Freud, and cognitive sciences / Bettina Bergo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergo, Bettina, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

Husserl, Edmund.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Phenomenology.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Many of the new trends in the philosophy of mind are little over a generation old. They could hardly have come about without the crucial scientific & philosophical innovations forged between 1890 & 1935. During that revolutionary period, important thinkers aspired to describe dynamic processes & unearth the 'genetic' foundations of their disciplines. They addressed the question of consciousness & bodily intelligence, seeking a way past inherited versions of mind-body dualism. Early neurological & phenomenalist models would more than influence computationalism, connectionism, & enactivist approaches to consciousness, representations & judgments, memory, & even lived intersubjectivity. They constitute the first act in the complex drama ongoing today. This text thus enacts a conversation, among others, between Freud the neurologist & Husserl in his pursuit of the embodied depths of consciousness.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Part I Setting the Stage

1 The Relevance of Freud's Project (1895-1896) for Husserlian Phenomenology

1.1 The Conundrums of Psycho-Physical Parallelism

1.2 The Genesis of the Entwurf einer Psychologie (Project for a [Scientific] Psychology)

1.3 The Innovations of Freud's Project

1.4 The Abandonment of Freud's Project

1.5 Husserl's Phenomenology and the Question of Psycho-Physics

2 The Intellectual Context: Herbart, Mach, and Brentano

2.1 Introductory Remarks on the Conundrum of the Body

2.2 Freud and Husserl-Brothers from Three Fathers: Franz Brentano, Johann Friedrich Herbart, and Ernst Mach

2.3 Johann Friedrich Herbart and the Impact of the Herbart School

2.4 Ernst Mach: Toward a Biological A Priori

2.5 Franz Brentano and the Problem of Imagination and Memory

2.6 Conclusion

3 Memory and Inscription: Time-Consciousness and Its Bodily Correlate

3.1 Versions of the Un-Conscious (Un-bewusst)

3.2 Against Brentano's Productive Imagination

3.3 Layers of Bodily Inscription: Freud

3.4 The Differences between Retention and Recollection

4 The Enigma of the Egos: Husserl's Triune Ego

Freud's Neurological-Psychological Ego

4.1 Introductory Remarks

4.2 The Phenomenological and the Neurological Egos: Sedimentation and Complexification

4.3 Husserl's Transcendental Ego and Einfühlung: Monads and the Question of Windows

4.4 Freud's Psycho-physics and Its Persistence in His Psychoanalysis

4.5 The Question of the Unity of the Ego

4.6 Conclusion

5 Judgment, Neurological and Phenomenological

5.1 The Embodied Origins of Judgment

5.2 Genetic Logic, Neural Logic

5.3 Affects and Affections, Activity and Passivity

5.4 Freud's Model of Neurological Judgment.

5.5 The Birth of Logical Categories in Judgment

5.6 Concluding Observations

Part II Performing the Missed Conversation

6 Freud, Husserl in Light of Some Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

6.1 Freud's Project and Its Contemporary Relevance to Cognitive Neuroscience

6.2 A New Epistemological Approach: Freud's Extraordinary Anticipation of Contemporary Concepts in Cognitive Neuroscience

6.2.1 Functionalism and Connectionism

6.2.2 Frequencies and Feedback Loops

6.2.3 Freud's Developmental Psychology Concerned with the Evolution of the Infant's Brain

6.3 A Dynamic Conceptual Framework for Sensation, Perception, and Action

6.4 Energetics, or a Non-Linear "Mechanics" of Energy Quanta

6.5 The Mediation of Unconscious Mentation

6.6 Associationism: A Bridge Between Psycho-Physics and Husserl's Phenomenology

6.7 Freud and the Neurology of Associationism

7 Thematic Dimensions of the Missed Conversation: Openings and Obstacles

7.1 Husserl's Phenomenology

7.2 Freud's Materialist Project (1895-1896)

7.3 Rewriting Freud's Project for a Psychology

7.4 Cognitive Science (Revisited)

8 The Conversation Staged

8.1 A Collaborative Approach: Solms's Rewritten Project (2020)

8.2 Key Concepts of Freud's Project

8.3 Solms and Friston's Five Principial Modifications

8.4 Phenomenology Enters the Conversation

8.4.1 Retention and protention: The living present

8.4.2 Memory, short- and long-term

8.4.3 Affections in light of the relationship between quantity and quality

8.4.4 Intentionality and consciousness in phenomenology and biological systems

8.5 Husserl's Attempt to Constitute Bodily Origins through Passivity and Kinestheses (Urpraxis)28

8.6 Psychoanalysis Encounters Value, Prediction, and Conflict in Hysteria

8.7 Value Conflict: The Core of Hysterical Pathology.

8.8 Emotions, Value, and Bodies

8.8.1 The example of the snowman: Images and narrative, images versus narrative

8.8.2 Jesse Prinz and 'unconscious emotions'

9 Phenomenology, Affect, and Its Complex Relationship to the Body

9.1 Classical Phenomenology Responds to Jesse Prinz

9.2 Phenomenological Criticisms of Causality

9.3 Phenomena, Symbols, and Predictive Coding

9.4 Representation: The Problem of Vorstellung

9.4.1 Representation: Do we know what we mean by the term?

9.5 Attention

9.6 Affects as Intramodal, Affects as Intermodal

9.7 The Vicissitudes of the Ego and Its Affective Tendencies: The Pre-Representational

9.8 Summary of the Discussion

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-779360-6

0-19-779361-4

0-19-779359-2

OCLC:

1519805735