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Freud, the reluctant philosopher

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Tauber's Freud falls into a short line of philosophical studies that attempt to 'rescue' the modernist project through a reading of psychoanalysis as an ethical venture, one grounded in moral responsibility and rationality. In this regard, Tauber has placed Freud into an imagined dialogue with the philosophers of his own period to review the critical epistemological weaknesses of psychoanalytic theory, which is balanced against a sympathetic reading of Freud's humanism. This is no hagiography. Rather, to see Freud's project within the framework of the key philosophical discussions of his era allows one to appreciate that the particular truth claims made by Freud and his followers have weak standing, but the underlying effort to reformulate our understanding of personal identity firmly places Freudianism within the Western philosophical tradition. The book is original in conception, broad in its approach, and accessible to those with minimal philosophical sophistication..

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Z. HANDIMAN

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150.195 TAU f

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press., 2010

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xx,318p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

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978-0-691-14551-8

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150.195

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PSYCHOANALYTIC SYSTEMS

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