The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy by Marcia Cavell | Harvard University Press; Reprint edition

The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy

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Binding : Paperback ISBN-10 : 0674720962 Language : English
Publisher : Harvard University Press; Reprint edition Publication Date : February 1, 1996 Pages : 288

Cavell elaborates the view, traceable from Wittgenstein to Davidson, that there is no thought, and thus no meaning, without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice. Cavell's argument takes up several issues of continuing interest to both philosophers and psychoanalysts, including the explanation of action, especially irrational action, the concept of subjectivity, the minds of children, the genealogy of morals, and narration in "life stories."

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