Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind

by Chung, Man Cheung; Feltham, Colin

• ISBN13: 9780333973912
• ISBN10: 0333973917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to psychoanalysis: the philosophy of mind; the notion of changing oneself; religion; the notion of interdisciplinary links with psychoanalytic knowledge; post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge and challenges to psychoanalytic methodology..

Author Biography

Man Cheung Chung is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Colin Feltham is Reader in Counselling at Sheffield Hallam University and former co-editor of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgement

Notes on Contributors

Examining the Nature of Psychoanalytic Knowledge--M. Cheung Chung

Kant and Freud--A. Brook

Psychoanalysis as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis as Worldview--C. F. Alford

'Some Unimaginable Substratum': A Contemporary Introduction to Freud's Philosophy of Mind--D. L. Smith

Freud and the Neurological Unconscious--G. Gillett

The Etiology of Emotion and Ossification of Self: You Can't Change People Because People Don't Change--M. P. Levine

The Illusion of a Future--W. D. Hart

Emotion, Evolution and Conflict--J. Hopkins

Freud, Object Relations, Agency and the Self--T. Pataki

Autonomy and the Problem of Suffering: Tragedy and Transcendence in Psychoanalytic Discourse--S. R. Kirschner

The Self In Psychoanalysis: Heinz Kohut and Narcissism: A Critique--I. Dilman

Challenges to Psychoanalytic Methodology--M. Macmillan