The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy - Hardcover

Cavell, Marcia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674720954 ISBN 13: 9780674720954

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Cavell elaborates the view, traceable from Wittgenstein to Davidson, that there is no thought, and thus no meaning, without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice. Cavell's argument takes up several issues of continuing interest to both philosophers and psychoanalysts, including the explanation of action, especially irrational action, the concept of subjectivity, the minds of children, the genealogy of morals, and narration in "life stories."

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

Any psychologist interested in a deeper understanding of what it means to think in terms of unconscious processes will want to read Cavell's book. (Alan Bass Contemporary Psychology)

An outstanding introduction to modern perspectives of psychoanalysis and philosophy and the synthesis of meaning and mind that they share. (Antioch Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0674720954
• ISBN 13: 9780674720954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288