Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

by Hendrix, John Shannon

• ISBN13: 9781137538123
• ISBN10: 1137538120
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis. Hendrix considers the workings of unconscious thought, and the role that unconscious thought plays in thinking, language, perception, and human identity. The focus is on the metaphysical and philosophical concepts of unconscious thought, as opposed to the empirical or scientific phenomenon of 'the unconscious', and it is argued that these metaphysical concepts still played an important role in the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

With chapters drawing on a wide range of philosophers from Plotinus to Freud and Lacan, Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis casts an original and thought-provoking perspective on the relation between unconscious thought and conscious thought, different kinds of thinking, and the relation between thinking and perceiving.

Author Biography

John Shannon Hendrix is a professor at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Roger Williams University, US. Previous books include The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture, Architecture and Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit: From Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel, and Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Plotinus: The First Philosopher of the Unconscious
2. The Peripatetics and Unconscious Thought
3. The Active Intellect of Averroes
4. Robert Grosseteste: Imagination and Unconscious Thought
5. Unconscious Thought in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
6. Unconscious Thought in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Philosophies
7. Unconscious Thought in Freud
8. Unconscious Thought in Lacan