Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis [ electronic resource ] / by Sebastian Gardner.
By: Gardner, Sebastian.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009ISBN: 9780511554599 ( e-book ).Subject(s): Philosophy | Philosophy: General Interest | Literature | Literary TheoryGenre/Form: Electronic booksDDC classification: 153.43 Online resources: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554599 Click to view Summary: In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind', in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic explanation by exhibiting its continuity with everyday psychology.
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In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind', in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic explanation by exhibiting its continuity with everyday psychology.
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