Psychoanalytic Knowledge [Paperback]

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.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 IndexC. 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'l³$