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" Irrationality and the philosophy of psychoanalysis / "
Sebastian Gardner.
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1008339
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b762709
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Gardner, Sebastian.
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Irrationality and the philosophy of psychoanalysis /\ Sebastian Gardner.
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)
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0511554591
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: 9780511554599
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052103387X
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0521410908
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9780521033879
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9780521410908
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Dividing persons -- pt. 2. Psychoanalytic concepts -- pt. 3. Psychoanalytic conception of mind.
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In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind', in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic explanation by exhibiting its continuity with everyday psychology.
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Freud, Sigmund,1856-1939.
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Klein, Melanie.
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Freud, Sigmund,1856-1939.
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Klein, Melanie.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Reason.
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Subconsciousness.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Reason.
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Subconsciousness.
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150.19/52
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BF173.G364 1993eb
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