Freud Among the Philosophers The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its Philosophical Critics Donald Levy

Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
01 Oct 1996
ISBN:
9780300066326
Dimensions:
200 pages: 210 x 140 x 21mm

Philosophical arguments against Freud's idea of the unconscious have existed as long as psychoanalysis itself. This work considers the most significant and persuasive of these criticisms, as articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, William James, Alasdair MacIntyre and Adolf Grunbaum.