The organization of the mind : lessons from Kant and Freud /
"The book lays out connections between Immanuel Kant's and Sigmund Freud's respective views of the mind. Those connections run afoul of generally accepted contrasts between the two views. Whereas Kant investigates the forms of rational thinking that are necessary conditions for theore...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Rutgers lectures in philosophy series
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| Summary: | "The book lays out connections between Immanuel Kant's and Sigmund Freud's respective views of the mind. Those connections run afoul of generally accepted contrasts between the two views. Whereas Kant investigates the forms of rational thinking that are necessary conditions for theoretical cognition and moral motivation, in contrast, Freud reveals the irrational core of our mental life. Whereas conscious states and their unity play an essential role in Kant's view of the mind, in contrast, Freud takes the core of our mental life to be unconscious and inhabited by insuperable conflicts. While acknowledging such contrasts, the book argues that a more fine-grained understanding of each thinker reveals proto-Freudian aspects in Kant's view and elements for a genealogy of the mind as analyzed by Kant in Freud's view. The two views remain irreducible to one another but understanding the development from one to the other yields important lessons for contemporary philosophy of mind and moral psychology"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 160 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197781265 0197781268 |