Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1

Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States

Jerome C. Wakefield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 382 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96342-6 (ISBN)

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This book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud's implicit argument for unconscious mental states. The author employs the unique approach of applying contemporary philosophical methods, especially Kripke-Putnam essentialism, in analyzing Freud's argument. The book elaborates how Freud transformed the intentionality theory of his Cartesian teacher Franz Brentano into what is essentially a sophisticated modern view of the mind. Indeed, Freud redirected Brentano's analysis of consciousness as intentionality into a view of consciousness-independent intentionalism about the mental that in effect set the agenda for latter-twentieth-century philosophy of mind.

Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor, Professor of Social Work, and Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, as well as Associate Faculty in the College of Global Public Health, Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Bioethics and the Center for Ancient Studies, and Honorary Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, all at New York University.

1. Introduction: Freud and the Transformation of Psychology.- 2. "Unconscious" as "Mental but Not Conscious": Why Examples of Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Largely Irrelevant to Freud's Philosophy-of-Mind Argument.- 3. The Semantic Objection to Freud's Thesis.- 4. Freud's Response to the Semantic Objection: Concepts, Essentialism, and the Definition of 'Mental'.- 5. Freud and Brentano: The Cartesian Tradition that Confronted Freud.- 6. Cartesianism Without the Consciousness Criterion: Solving the Mystery of Freud's Missing Account of the Mental.- 7. Freud's Direct Arguments Against the Consciousness Criterion: Does Freud Beg the Question of the Boundary of Psychology?.- 8: Freud on the Mind-Body Problem: Turning Psychophysical Parallelism on Its Head.- 9. Freud's Argument for Brain Representationality as the Essence of the Mental.- 10. Conclusion: The Freudian Century in Philosophy of Mind.

"Jerome Wakefield's meticulous and brilliant work, powered by his scholarly knowledge in the areas of philosophy and psychoanalysis, is displayed in this book and is welcomed in this context. ... Wakefield's work stands as an example of the kind of bridging that is necessary between these two fields." (Cuneyt Iscan, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)

“Jerome Wakefield’s meticulous and brilliant work, powered by his scholarly knowledge in the areas of philosophy and psychoanalysis, is displayed in this book and is welcomed in this context. … Wakefield’s work stands as an example of the kind of bridging that is necessary between these two fields.” (Cuneyt Iscan, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 382 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	642 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Freud Studies • History of Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • Psychoanalysis • Sigmund Freud • Unconscious mental states
ISBN-10	3-319-96342-2 / 3319963422
ISBN-13	978-3-319-96342-6 / 9783319963426
Zustand	Neuware