Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind (First Edition)

Kitcher, Patricia W.

ISBN 10: 0262111721 / ISBN 13: 9780262111720

Published by Mit Press, Cambridge. Massachusetts, 1992

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Full black cloth, with silver lettering to spine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with sun-fading to spine. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 245 pages, with index. Examines Sigmund Freud s ambition to unify psychology with biology and philosophy, analyzing the scientific basis of psychoanalysis and its interdisciplinary legacy. Patricia W. Kitcher is a philosopher specializing in Kant, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science, and has published extensively in those fields. This is her second book. Seller Inventory # Aneex-UP-Cloth

Synopsis:

Freud's Dream provides an extended case study of the appeal and potential dangers of the interdisciplinary approach to theory construction now guiding cognitive science as well as a novel interpretation of Freud's own program.

Kitcher argues that Freud's grand scheme for psychoanalysis was nothing less than a blueprint for a complete interdisciplinary science of mind, that many of its strengths and weaknesses derived from that fact, and that Freud's errors are instructive for current work in cognitive science.

In particular, Kitcher maintains that Freud's metapsychology was not a dispensible theoretical superstructure but a set of directives for constructing a science of mind that would be firmly grounded in then current results in neurophysiology, evolutionary biology, psychology, psychiatry, and the social sciences. The collapse of psychoanalysis, Kitcher asserts, was due in large measure to fundamental changes in the sciences out of which Freud constructed his theories and his refusal to recognize the degree to which he had made psychoanalysis dependent on the results and assumptions of nineteenth-century science.

Patricia Kitcher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

About the Author: Patricia Kitcher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary ...
Publisher: Mit Press, Cambridge. Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition