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William James and Sigmund Freud on the Mind: Saving Subjectivity: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Autor Alfred Tauber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2025
This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of 20th century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.
Each asked, can the mind be scientifically characterized? While Freud thought that psychoanalysis had established a science of the mind, James maintained that the subjective could not be objectified, and psychology was left with only “the crumbs” of analysis.  Tauber’s presentation of a conjured philosophical confrontation occasioned by their first and only meeting in 1909 uncovers the clashing philosophies of mind underlying their respective positions.  In comparing their opposing portraits of the psyche, persistent questions about self-knowledge, personal identity and moral agency are presented at their fin de siècle origin. In this setting, the James-Freud dispute offers a unique perspective about our own contemporary dilemmas swirling around selfhood, consciousness, and the subjectivity of human experience.
This eclectic history of early psychology will interest psychoanalysts, psychologists, and philosophers as well as those interested in the origins of pragmatism, phenomenology, modernism, and twentieth-century positivism.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032900360
ISBN-10: 1032900369
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Freud’s Philosophy of Mind  2. James’s Assault on Metaphysical Dualism  3. Concerning Subjectivity  4. Attending to Thought  5. The Enigmatic Self  6. On Agency  Conclusion

Notă biografică

Alfred I. Tauber, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University, has extensively published in philosophy and history of science that include philosophical critiques of psychoanalysis and Freud’s contemporary significance in Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher (Princeton 2010) and Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism (Stanford 2013).

Recenzii

“Alfred Tauber offers us a lucid and satisfying presentation and comparison of William James’s subjectivism--his study of experience itself—and Sigmund Freud’s contrasting objectivism, in which the mind was understood as an entity separate from the observer. But Tauber is not satisfied with a mere comparison: he shows us why and how these differences have mattered—in both intellectual and  social/political life. The book is an eye-opener; it is downright exciting—perhaps especially for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. How is it that this comparative study was not tackled until now?”
Donnel B. Stern, William Alanson White Institute, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
“William James and Sigmund Freud on the Mind is a startling original contribution, not only to the debates about human psychology and subjectivity, but also to the role that 'American pragmatism' has had in shaping our understanding of the world about us.  If the debate seems to be between Freud and James about whether science can define the essence of the human, it is also about how the claims about individual autonomy, often seen as the hallmark of American pragmatism, has come—for good or for ill—to define our modernity. Alfred I. Tauber’s writing is clear and crisp—forcing us to ask how much our understanding of ourselves is embedded in what we define as 'human.'”
Sander L Gilman, author of Freud, Race, and Gender
 
 
 
“Finally, a long overdue study on the confrontation between James and Freud. As Tauber masterfully demonstrates, Freud’s psychoanalysis was born within a historical epoch that assumed the truth of positivist assumptions, against which James would protest vigorously. James rejected Freud’s “dualistic” approach; instead promoting the primacy of human experience. Their feuding conceptions of the mind animated the development of modern psychology, a division yet to be fully explored. Tauber has now remedied that deficiency.”
 
Dustin J. Byrd, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, The University of Olivet
 

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This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of 20th century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.