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Nothing to It : Reading Freud as a Philosopher
137 p.
- The special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenologyThe confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an 'excess of meaning', and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions.
- This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say 'Nothing to It' indicates that the 'It'-or Freudian Id-is not visible as it never shows itself as a 'phenomenon'. Such a reading of Freud exemplifies how psychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology's development.Translators: Robert Vallier (DePaul University), William L. Connelly (The Catholic University of Paris)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). [Publisher's text].
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