Philosophical essays on Freud
Richard Wollheim (Editor), James Hopkins (Editor)
Philosophers are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Freudian theory for the understanding of the mind. The picture Freud presents of the mind's growth and organization holds implications not just for such perennial questions as the relation of mind and body, the nature of memory and personal identity, the interplay of cognitive and affective processes in reasoning and acting, but also for the very way in which these questions are conceived and an interpretation of the mind is sought. This volume of essays, by some of today's leading philosophers, explores all these topics, as well as the methods, results, and status of the theory itself, while two 'classical' discussions by Wittgenstein and Sartre are also included. This anthology will be vital to anyone interested in Freudian theory and, more generally, in philosophical psychology
Print Book, English, 1982
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1982