Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting-edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to psychoanalysis: the philosophy of mind; the notion of changing oneself; religion; the notion of interdisciplinary links with psychoanalytic knowledge; post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge and challenges to psychoanalytic methodology.

Autorentext

C. FRED ALFORD is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA ANDREW BROOK is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottowa, Canada ILHAM DILMAN was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK GRANT GILLETT is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand W.D.HART is Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA JAMES HOPKINS is Reader in Philosophy at King's College London, UK SUZANNE R. KIRSCHNER is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA MICHAEL P. LEVINE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and Weismann Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA MALCOLM BRUCE MACMILLAN is an Adjunct-Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, Australia TAMAS PATAKI is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia, and Honorary Fellow, Deakin University, Australia DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH is Director of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England, USA.

Zusammenfassung
Freud's influence upon many aspects of our cultures, our ways of thinking and our writings is enormous and pervasive. This book is a collection of essays, written by eminent scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis, which present cutting-edge thinking on the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge. The book begins by looking at the influence of Kantian philosophical ideas on the formation of psychoanalytic knowledge and the general relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis. What follows is an examination of the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in terms of literature on the philosophy of mind. The possiblity of changing oneself through psychoanalytic knowledge undergoes philosophical scrutiny, as does the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis and how psychoanalytic knowledge is relevant to a variety of disciplines including evolutionary science, social/developmental psychology and neuroscience. Attention then shifts to the post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge (primarliy object relations theiry and self-psychology), and to methodological issues within psychoanalysis. The arguments put forward are original, engaging and rigorous, and likely to provoke quality debate in the area of the philosophy of psychoanalysis.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Examining the Nature of Psychoanalytic Knowledge; M.Cheung Chung Kant and Freud; A.Brook Psychoanalysis as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis as Worldview; C.F.Alford 'Some Unimaginable Substratum': A Contemporary Introduction to Freud's Philosophy of Mind; D.L.Smith Freud and the Neurological Unconscious; G.Gillett The Etiology of Emotion and Ossification of Self: You Can't Change People Because People Don't Change; M.P.Levine The Illusion of a Future; W.D.Hart Emotion, Evolution and Conflict; J.Hopkins Freud, Object Relations, Agency and the Self; T.Pataki Autonomy and the Problem of Suffering: Tragedy and Transcendence in Psychoanalytic Discourse; S.R.Kirschner The Self in Psychoanalysis: Heinz Kohut and Narcissism - A Critique; I.Dilman Challenges to Psychoanalytic Methodology; M.Macmillan Index