Philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the origins of meaning : pre-reflective intentionality in the psychoanalytic view of the mind /

Snelling, David,

Philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the origins of meaning : pre-reflective intentionality in the psychoanalytic view of the mind / David Snelling. - vi, 217 pages ; 22 cm. - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy . - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.

Cavell, Klein and the Extension of Commonsense Psychology. The pattern of commonsense explanation. Marcia Cavell's reconstruction of psychoanalysis. The challenge from Kleinian theory -- Unconscious Phantasy and Mental Life. The ubiquity of unconscious phantasy. The basic nature of phantasy. How Kleinian and Freudian theory connect -- From Freud to Phenomenology. The Freudian object. A Wittgensteinian approach to phenomenology. Heidegger and meaning. Pre-reflective intentionality: some consequences -- Hegel and 'Being-in-the-World'. Hegel's doctrine of 'soul'. Hegel and madness. The pre-reflective basis of skill and habit -- Wilfred Bion and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Thinking. Klein and symbol-formation. Psychosis and infancy. Doing things with words. Bion's 'empiricism' -- Psychoanalysis, Psychosis and Being: 'Falling-out-of-the-World'. Psychoanalysis and the pre-reflective level. Sartre's loss of meaning. Further applications -- Internal Objects and Ontology. Hegel's holistic metaphysics. Internal objects assessed. Objects and universals -- Hegel and Holism. Unifying pluralities, sundering unities. Unity, the universal, and the internal object. Unity and holistic metaphysics. Conclusion: the ramifications of holism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Psychoanalysis and philosophy

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