Freud

Jonathan Lear

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317676812
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nature of the self and subjectivity, and ethics and religion. He also considers some of the deeper issues and problems Freud engaged with, brilliantly illustrating their philosophical significance: human sexuality, the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of transference. The author's approach emphasizes the philosophical significance of Freud's fundamental rule – to say whatever comes to mind without censorship or inhibition. This binds psychoanalysis to the philosophical exploration of self-consciousness and truthfulness, as well as opening new paths of inquiry for moral psychology and ethics.

The second edition includes a new Introduction and Conclusion. The text is revised throughout, including new sections on psychological structure and object relations and on Freud's critique of religion and morality.

Index

acting-out 151, 160; definition 216; transference 126, 139, 144

action, and interpretation of unconscious 33–35, 44–45

activity, dreams as see dream-work

Adler, Alfred 106

aggression: death drive 163, 217–18; and morality 192–95, 204, 206; psyche 183, 185

ambition, Freud’s self-interpretation 100–103

American Psychoanalytic Association 91 n31

analysis 29–30

Anaxagoras 23

ancient world: dreams 96–97, 98; Greek philosophy xv, 10–12, 17, 192; see also Aristotle; Plato; Socrates

anger, interpretation of unconscious 30–33, 38, 41, 43–45; psyche 169–70, 181–83, 185; transference 130–33, 151

animal instinct, distinguished from sexual drive 75–78

Anna O see O, Anna

anxiety 38, 62, 73, 112, 128, 156, 170, 175, 176, 214; strategic value 40–42, 68, 161; and superego 180–81, 195

anxiety defense 42–44, 129–32, 160

anxiety-dreams 114–15, 134–36

appetite 7, 60 n32

appropriation, problem of 139

archaic meaning 113

Aristotle xv, 1, 3, 10–14, 16–19, 23, 75, 197, 212; see also psychic integration

Artemidorus of Daldis 98

artificial hysterogenic zone 69–70

authority, dreamer 98

‘autobiographical study, An’ 85

bad conscience 193

beliefs 9, 31 37, 42–43, 46–47, 51, 63, 119 n7, 181, 218; religious beliefs 191, 199–201, 213

Beyond the pleasure principle 85, 158, 163

bisexuality 188...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the second edition
• Chronology
• Introduction: The peculiar conversation
• One Interpreting the unconscious
• Two Sex, Eros and life
• Three The interpretation of dreams
• Four Transference
• Five Principles of mental functioning
• Six The structure of the psyche and the birth of 'object' relations
• Seven Morality and religion
• Conclusion: Freud's legacy
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index