The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis (Studies in Philosophy Psychology) (Paperback)

by Alasdair MacIntyre (Author) "The Unconscious: a conceptual analysis was written in 1957, when I had just resigned the position of Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at Manchester..." (more)
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'Interesting and very suggestive' Philosophical Review

Interesting and very suggestive Philosophical Review --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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A new edition of a classic philosophical inquiry into psychoanalysis and the Freudian notion of the unconscious, by one of the foremost contemporary philosophers in the world, with a substantial new preface by the author. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC; New edition edition (November 18, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0710078005
• ISBN-13: 978-0710078001
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,774,465 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Studies on the Unconscious , December 21, 2008

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This review is from: Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis (Paperback)

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"The essay is a philosophical study of the concept of unconscious mental activity, and more particularly of that concept as Freud developed it in his formative early writing.

No part of psychological theory has struck the lay imagination more forcibly than the concept of the Unconscious, and yet nowhere are misunderstanding and confusion more likely to arise. There is therefore room for an attempt at clarification, for an enquiry which will seek to discover what it means to assert the existence of the Unconscious rather than an assessment of the empirical grounds for such an assertion.

But this task of clarification necessitates both some discussion of the nature of psychological theory and an exploration of some of the problems raised by our ordinary, pre-Freudian view of the mind. The argument thus comprises an attack on certain philosophical problems as well as an elucidation of a key psycho-analytic concept."


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CONTENTS:

* Introductory and Bibliographical Note

1 - Prolegomena

2 - Freud's Account of the Unconscious

3 - Mental Words and Mental Concepts

4 - Describing and Explaining

5 - Theory and Therapy