Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1 Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States /

• Main Author: Wakefield, Jerome C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Philosophy.; General Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; History of Psychology.; Self and Identity.; History of Philosophy.
• Physical Description: XIII, 382 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319963433
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96343-3

This book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud's implicit argument for unconscious mental states. The author employs the unique approach of applying contemporary philosophical methods, especially Kripke-Putnam essentialism, in analyzing Freud's argument. The book elaborates how Freud transformed the intentionality theory of his Cartesian teacher Franz Brentano into what is essentially a sophisticated modern view of the mind. Indeed, Freud redirected Brentano's analysis of consciousness as intentionality into a view of consciousness-independent intentionalism about the mental that in effect set the agenda for latter-twentieth-century philosophy of mind. .