Rereading Freud

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Rereading Freud assembles eminent philosophical scholars and clinical practitioners from continental, pragmatic, feminist, and psychoanalytic paradigms to examine Freud's metapsychology. Fundamentally distorted and misinterpreted by generations of English speaking commentators, Freud's theories are frequently misunderstood within psychoanalysis today. This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on several of Freud's most influential theories, including the nature and structure of dreams; infantile sexuality; drive and defense; ego development; symptom formation; feminine psychology; the therapeutic process; death; and the question of race. In so doing, they shed light on the ontological commitments Freud introduces in his metapsychology and the implications generated for engaging theoretical, clinical, and applied modes of philosophical inquiry.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Logic and Illogic of the Dream-Work
John Sallis

2. Freud's Dream Theory and Social Constructivism
Tom Rockmore

3. The Bodily Unconscious in Freud's "Three Essays"
John Russon

4. The Ego Does Not Resemble the Cadaver: Image and Self in Freud
Stephen David Ross

5. The 'Alchemy of Identification': Narcissism, Melancholia, Femininity
Emily Zakin

6. The Ontology of Denial
Wilfried Ver Eecke

7. The I and the It
Jon Mills

8. Temporality and the Therapeutic Subject: The Phenomenology of Transference, Remembering, and Working-Through
Maria Talero

9. Freud and Kierkegaard on Genocide and the Death Drive
Bruce Wilshire

10. The Unconscious Life of Race: Freudian Resources for Critical Race Theory
Shannon Sullivan

About the Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791485286
• Langue: English

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REREADING FREUD

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REREADING FREUD

Psychoanalysis through Philosophy

Edited by JON MILLS

State University of New York Press

Published by S U N Y P , A TATE NIVERSITY OF EW ORK RESS LBANY

© 2004 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rereading Freud : psychoanalysis through philosophy / [edited by] Jon Mills. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6047-9 (alk. paper) 1. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939. 2. Psychoanalysis and philosophy. I. Mills, Jon, 1964–

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For my father, to whom I aspire

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Preface

Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

1 The Logic and Illogic of the Dream-Work John Sallis

2 Freud’s Dream Theory and Social Constructivism Tom Rockmore

3 The Bodily Unconscious in Freud’s “Three Essays” John Russon

4 The Ego Does Not Resemble the Cadaver: Image and Self in Freud Stephen David Ross

5 The ‘Alchemy of Identification’: Narcissism, Melancholia, Femininity Emily Zakin

6 The Ontology of Denial Wilfried Ver Eecke

7 TheIand theIt Jon Mills

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8 Temporality and the Therapeutic Subject: The Phenomenology of Transference, Remembering, and Working-Through Maria Talero 9 Freud and Kierkegaard on Genocide and the Death Drive Bruce Wilshire 10 The Unconscious Life of Race: Freudian Resources for Critical Race Theory Shannon Sullivan

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PREFACE

Freud is heralded as one of the most influential yet disputed thinkers of the twentieth century, having radically affected and transformed our shifting conceptions of mind, human nature, science, religion, civilization, and gen- der. It has been said that no one since Jesus has been so compelling or 1 controversial. Ricoeur refers to Freud’s work as a “monument of our cul- 2 3 ture,” while Wollheim says he “revolutionized . . . the world.” Just as Kant is attributed with initiating the Copernican turn in philosophy, so is Freud 4 credited with turning our understanding of human psychology on its head. Either admired or vilified, adored or detested, we may reason with or against him, but we cannot reason without him. Freud’s ideas have become commonplace even among popular culture: nowhere can we turn without being reminded of his legacy. Currently psy- choanalysis enjoys a central focus of contemporary European and North American intellectual life. We may especially observe a resurgence of inter- est in Freud studies among the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, literature, sociopolitical theory, anthropology, psychobiology, ethology, cultural theory, history, religion, feminist thought, art and film studies, semiotics, neurocognitive science, and the history of ideas. Within the field of psychoanalysis, however, Freud has largely devolved into contem- porary perspectives. Because the history of psychoanalysis has produced sev- eral postclassical movements from ego psychology to object relations theories, interpersonal approaches, self psychology, and relational-intersubjective view- 5 points, there is a culture of narcissism that informs divided group loyalties. Plagued by challenges from within its own governing institutional practices, as well as from waning public interest in analytic treatment, psychoanalysis has endured a century-long evolution from Freud’s original vision. Adding to these challenges, Freud’s theories have become so fundamentally distorted and misinterpreted by generations of English-speaking commentators that he is radically misunderstood even within psychoanalysis today. But whether he is renounced or subsumed, psychoanalysis is merely a footnote to Freud.

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