Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher
Title | Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred I. Tauber |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400836921 |
Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and misrepresenting his true achievement. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization.
Requiem for the Ego
Title | Requiem for the Ego PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred I. Tauber |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-09-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804788308 |
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of defining agency and describing subjectivity. In Requiem, Tauber uniquely synthesizes these philosophical attacks against psychoanalysis and, more generally, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major developments in mid-20th century philosophy that prepared the conceptual grounding for postmodernism.
Freud
Title | Freud PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Lear |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415314503 |
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of psychology. He also made profound insights into the psychology and understanding of human beings. In this brilliant and long-awaited introduction, Jonathan Lear--one of the most respected writers on Freud--shows how Freud also made fundamental contributions to philosophy and why he ranks alongside Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Darwin as a great theorist of human nature. Freud is one of the most important introductions and contributions to understanding this great thinker to have been published for many years, and will be essential reading for anyone in the humanities, social sciences and beyond with an interest in Freud or philosophy.
The Question of God
Title | The Question of God PDF eBook |
Author | Armand Nicholi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003-08-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780743247856 |
Compares and contrasts the beliefs of two famous thinkers, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, on topics ranging from the existence of God and morality to pain and suffering.
Freud
Title | Freud PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Whitebook |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2017-01-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521864186 |
This book presents a radical look at the founder of psychoanalysis in his broader cultural context, addressing critical issues and challenging stereotypes.
Freud
Title | Freud PDF eBook |
Author | M. Andrew Holowchak |
Publisher | Jason Aronson, Incorporated |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012-09-13 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0765709465 |
Freud: From Individual Psychology to Group Psychology, by M. Andrew Holowchak, explores Freudian psychoanalysis as a full-fledged science, as it relates psychoanalytically to issues of individual psychology (Individualpsychologie) and group psychology (Massenpsychologie). Holowchak analyzes Freud’s shift in focus in his mature years away from psychoanalysis as a “curative” method for treating individual neurosis, to psychoanalysis as a full-fledged science of the human psyche that essays to shed light on group issues, such as religiosity and war.
Freud in Cambridge
Title | Freud in Cambridge PDF eBook |
Author | John Forrester |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 719 |
Release | 2017-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052186190X |
The authors explore the influence of Freud's thinking on twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life within Cambridge and beyond.