Becoming a Subject Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Name: Becoming a Subject Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
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ISBN: 9780199287093

ISBN-10: 0199287090

ISBN-13: 9780199287093

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marcia Cavell

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Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A "subject" is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an "I", taking in the world from her own subjective perspective; who is an agent, doing things for reasons, sometimes self-reflective, and able to assume responsibility for herself and some of her actions. The idea of a 'subject' points, then, toward an ideal. It asks for the conditions under which a human infant becomes a subject, and for the sorts of things, like self-deception and massive anxiety, that get in the way. What sorts of questions are these? Certainly philosophical.…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 194
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Marcia Cavell is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Academic Associate of the American Psychoanalytic Association.



Introduction



Preliminary Remarks on Memory and Mind



Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, and Memory



The Anxious Animal



Keeping Time: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through



Self, Reality, Other Selves



Triangulation: The Social Character of Thought



On Judgment



Self-Reflections



Problems of the Self



Irrationality and Self-Transcendance



Freedom and Understanding



Valuing Emotions



Self-Knowledge and Self-Discovery



Knowledge, Consensus, and Uncertainty


References


Index