Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism by Alfred I. Tauber

Description: Requiem for the Ego by Alfred I. Tauber The attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freuds construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Requiem for the Ego recounts Freuds last great attempt to save the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the egos capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freuds depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freuds inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of defining agency and describing subjectivity. In Requiem, Tauber uniquely synthesizes these philosophical attacks against psychoanalysis and, more generally, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major developments in mid-20th century philosophy that prepared the conceptual grounding for postmodernism. Author Biography Alfred I. Tauber is Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, and Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He is the author of several books, most recently Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher (2010). Review "Requiem for the Ego, is a remarkable piece of work. It is exhaustive scholarship of the first order, and clearly written on a subject about which it is very difficult to be clear. I have no doubt it will be of enormous use to a great many people." - Marcia Cavell, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research "This is an important book in the philosophy of science, but it is also an important critique of the history of 20th century philosophy and its relationship to psychology. The blurred lines are here clarified and the denial on the part of philosophy that it was and is in a dialogue with psychology is laid to rest for once and for all." - Sander Gilman, Emory University Long Description Requiem for the Ego recounts Freuds last great attempt to save the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period--Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the egos capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freuds depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freuds inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of defining agency and describing subjectivity. In Requiem , Tauber uniquely synthesizes these philosophical attacks against psychoanalysis and, more generally, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major developments in mid-20th century philosophy that prepared the conceptual grounding for postmodernism. Review Quote "This is an important book in the philosophy of science, but it is also an important critique of the history of 20th century philosophy and its relationship to psychology. The blurred lines are here clarified and the denial on the part of philosophy that it was and is in a dialogue with psychology is laid to rest for once and for all." Details ISBN0804788294 Author Alfred I. Tauber Short Title REQUIEM FOR THE EGO Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804788294 ISBN-13 9780804788298 Media Book Format Paperback Residence US Year 2013 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-09-18 AU Release Date 2013-09-18 NZ Release Date 2013-09-18 US Release Date 2013-09-18 Pages 328 Publication Date 2013-09-18 Alternative 9780804787444 DEWEY 321.8 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159618266;

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