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The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty: Psychoanalytic Horizons

Autor Dr. Jeffrey McCurry Professor Esther Rashkin, Professor Mari Ruti, Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2023
Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf's criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy. During the first half of the 20th century, a profound transformation - an existential revolution - took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves. Inspired by Freud's psychoanalysis, a newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged. With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud's ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human.Jeffrey McCurry describes how this new state of affairs stood in contrast to how immediate experience had been historically dismissed, devalued, repressed, and even negated in the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy. This experience posed dangers to psychological stability, social order, and philosophical certainty. McCurry examines how Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Woolf's modernist criticism and fiction, and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, literature, and philosophy in turns embraced the risks and dangers of putting immediate experience as the center of humanity, of respecting, understanding, appreciating, and following the lead of immediate, spontaneous, pre-reflective, pre-evaluative, concrete experience in human life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798765107249
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Psychoanalytic Horizons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Interprets Freud's early psychoanalysis phenomenologically in a way that provides a horizon for developing a phenomenological understanding of modernism more broadly.

Notă biografică

Jeffrey McCurry is Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Cuprins

IntroductionAn Existential Revolution: A New Ethics of Experience1. Another Kind of Revolution: Existential2. Exploring Existential Revolutions: Cultural Sources3. The Freudian Age: A Recent Revolution4. Preview: Questions and Chapters Part I: Freud Before the Freudians1. Toward Unsettled Life: Anomaly and Quandary in Freud2. Toward Insane Life: Immorality and Incoherence in FreudPart II: Freudians Beyond Freud3. Toward Creative Life: Recalcitrance and Futurity in Woolf4. Toward Wondering Life: Mystery, Miracle, and Menace in Merleau-Ponty ConclusionThe Freudian Age: A Contemporary HorizonNotesIndex

Recenzii

Jeffrey McCurry's superb study - of Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty - reveals the essence of the phenomenological project as shared by all three: a focus on the ephemeral yet indelible immediacy of our existence as living subjects. In so doing he sheds original light on the ethical, esthetic, and spiritual resonances of this project, thereby locating phenomenology at the beating heart of modernist life and thought. McCurry shows that Woolf and Merleau-Ponty are key participants in what he terms the Freudian age. At a still deeper level he demonstrates that Freud himself is imbued with the spirit of phenomenology. This is a book of unusual subtlety that offers a novel orientation toward key questions of psychology and philosophy.
It is generally thought phenomenology and psychoanalysis do not go together.The Ethics of Immediacy shows the limits of this view. Jeffrey McCurry demonstrates and develops Freudian interpolations in Woolf's modernist literature and in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, and in doing, so incites the possibility of a renewed ethics from immediate experience. This book launches an ethical depth-charge to its reader: without any ideal, normative prescription, or even expectation, what responsibility, if any, does one have to interrogate immediate experience in one's own life and times?