Philosophical Essays on Freud

Name: Philosophical Essays on Freud
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ISBN: 9780521284257

ISBN-10: 0521284252

ISBN-13: 9780521284257

Edition: 1982

Authors: Richard Wollheim, James Hopkins

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Philosophers are increasingly coming to recognise the importance of Freudian theory for the understanding of the mind. The picture Freud presents of the mind's growth and Organisation holds implications not just for such perennial questions as the relation of mind and body, the nature of memory and personal identity, the interplay of cognitive and affective processes in reasoning and acting, but also for the very way in which these questions are conceived and an interpretation of the mind is sought. This volume of essays, by some of today's leading philosophers, explores all these topics, as well as the methods, results and status of the theory itself, while two 'classical' discussions by…

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List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Richard Wollheim was Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of California, Davis.




Conversations on Freud; excerpt from 1932G++3 lectures




Freud, Kepler, and the clinical evidence




Critical empiricism criticized: the case of Freud




Freudian common sense




Disposition and memory




On Freud's doctrine of emotions




The id and the thinking process




The bodily ego




Norms and the normal




On the generation and classification of defence mechanisms




Models of repression




Mauvaise foi and the unconscious




Self-deception and the 'splitting of the ego'




Freud's anthropomorphism




Freud's anatomies of the self




Motivated irrationality, Freudian theory and cognitive dissonance




Paradoxes of irrationality