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The existentialist critique of Freud : the crisis of autonomy /
Although largely sympathetic to Freud's clinical achievement, the existentialists criticized Freudian metapsychology as inappropriate to a truly humanistic psychology. Gerald Izenberg evaluates the critique of Freud in the work of two existential philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1976.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: The crisis of autonomy
- Chapter one: The positivist foundation of Freud's theory of meaning. Psychoanalysis and medicine; Mechanical explanation; Biological explanation
- Chapter two: The background of the existential critique. Binswanger's first phase; Being and Time
- Chapter three: The existential critique of psychoanalytic theory. The self as thing; Irrationality and the meaning of dreams and symptoms; Past and present: the infantile origin of symptoms; Instinct and meaning; Determinism and freedom; The nature of therapy
- Chapter four: The historical significance of the existential critique
- Chapter five: The existentialist concept of the self. Ludwig Binswanger; Jean-Paul Sartre; Medard Boss
- Chapter six: Authenticity as an ethic and as a concept of health
- Chapter seven: Ideology and social theory in psychoanalysis and existentialism. Three types of alienation; Boss, Heidegger and the technological critique of modernity; Social causation and anxiety in Binswanger; Sartre: the Marxist approach to the existential dilemma
- Bibliography
- Index.