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Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism

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Description for Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism Paperback. The attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud's construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPD; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.

Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804788298
SKU
V9780804788298
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About Alfred I. Tauber
Alfred I. Tauber is Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, and Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He is the author of several books, most recently Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher (2010).

Reviews for Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism
"Requiem for the Ego, is a remarkable piece of work. It is exhaustive scholarship of the first order, and clearly written on a subject about which it is very difficult to be clear. I have no doubt it will be of enormous use to a great many people."—Marcia Cavell, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research "This is an important book ... Read more

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