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.

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 elaborat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Freud and the Transformation of Psychology
• 2. "Unconscious" as "Mental but Not Conscious": Why Examples of Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Largely Irrelevant to Freud's Philosophy-of-Mind Argument
• 3. The Semantic Objection to Freud's Thesis
• 4. Freud's Response to the Semantic Objection: Concepts, Essentialism, and the Definition of 'Mental'
• 5. Freud and Brentano: The Cartesian Tradition that Confronted Freud
• 6. Cartesianism Without the Consciousness Criterion: Solving the Mystery of Freud's Missing Account of the Mental
• 7. Freud's Direct Arguments Against the Consciousness Criterion: Does Freud Beg the Question of the Boundary of Psychology?
• 8: Freud on the Mind-Body Problem: Turning Psychophysical Parallelism on Its Head
• 9. Freud's Argument for Brain Representationality as the Essence of the Mental
• 10. Conclusion: The Freudian Century in Philosophy of Mind.