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""This book makes an important contribution to understanding the nature and status of psychoanalytic theory by showing how a Wittgenstein-inspired clarification of Freud's original work dissolves commonplace misunderstandings about the unconscious mind. Its detailed analysis of various aspects of the metapsychology represents an important contribution to deconstruction of empiricist claims on behalf of psychoanalysis. Elder's apt adaptation of Wittgenstein's grammatical method to psychoanalysis addresses questions at the core of the debate between hermeneuticists like Ricoeur and Habermas on the one hand and philosophers of science like Grunbaum and Edelson on the other. Elder argues convincingly that the value of psychoanalytic theory lies primarily in its innovative conceptual framework, set of terms, images, and models for the description of human experience. Whether or not one accepts Elder's conclusions, one must be grateful for his careful and thorough treatment of the subject.""-Ernest Wallwork, Syracuse University ""The Grammar of the Unconscious reads and queries Freud's understanding of psychical reality using Wittgensteinian 'grammatical analysis.' I am convinced that this use provides original and important critiques of Freud's scientific self-understanding and of influential misreadings of Freud. As it does so, it exemplifies grammatical analysis in lively, moving, and clear language. The reader is invited to think with the author, who becomes a conceptually rigorous, meditative, lyrical, amusing, and honest guide, through the different uses of foundational psychoanalytical terms. In my judgment, this study should define the terms in which the status of Freudian theory is henceforth discussed.""-Judith Van Herik, Pennsylvania State University The Grammar of the Unconscious is both an inquiry into certain long-standing conceptual problems and the exemplification of Wittgenstein's grammatical method. The problems are for the most part those tha

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Pełny tytuł: Grammar of the Unconscious
• Podtytuł: The Conceptual Foundations of Psychoanalysis
• Autor: Charles R. Elder
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 272
• EAN: 9780271025674
• ISBN: 0271025670
• ID: 04563893
• Wydawca: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Waga: 454 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Data wydania: 15. September 1994

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