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Title: Irrationality & the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Author: GARDNER SEBASTIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/02/2007
Imprint: CAMBRIDGE UNI PRESS
Price: $58.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9780521033879
Pages: 319