| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The philosophical construction of the psychoanalytic ego -- Prospects of enlightenment -- Adorno : reconceiving the ego -- Heidegger's confrontation -- Lacan's return to Freud -- The désirants : whither the ego? -- Wittgenstein and the quandary of private language -- Conclusion : reason and its discontents. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Philosophy.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Ego (Psychology) -- Philosophy.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780804787444 0804787441 (DLC) 2013005911 |
| ISBN |
0804788308 (electronic bk.) |
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9780804788304 (electronic bk.) |
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