The Unconscious, The: A Conceptual Analysis (Key Texts S.) - Softcover

MacIntyre, Alasdair

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9781855065208: The Unconscious, The: A Conceptual Analysis (Key Texts S.)

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ISBN 10: 1855065207 ISBN 13: 9781855065208

Publisher: St Augustine's Press, 1997

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This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire. MacIntyre takes the opportunity to reflect both on the reviews and criticisms of the first edition and also on his own philosophical stance.

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This text distinguishes between the two uses of the Freudian term "unconscious": the descriptive, where Freud is seen as offering a non-causal description of psychological phenomena; and the explanatory, where he seems to be making correlations between crucial childhood events and adult behaviour. Noting that the concept of the unconscious is one that has captured the public mind, MacIntyre seeks to discover what it means to assert the existence of the unconscious rather than assess the empirical grounds for such an assertion. His exploration takes in the nature of psychological theory and the problems raised by our ordinary, pre-Freudian view of the mind. This text provides an illustration of how the techniques of linguistic analysis can be applied by modern philosophers.

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