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(2018) Freud and philosophy of mind I, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Cartesianism without the consciousness criterion
solving the mystery of Freud's missing account of the mental
Jerome C. Wakefield
pp. 211-240
How did Freud transform Brentano's version of the Cartesian tradition? This chapter provides a broad initial sketch of the basic elements of Freud's account of the mental, pinpointing how he reacted to each of the central tenets of the Cartesian/Brentano tradition. I argue that Freud retained most of Brentano's account while performing a precise "point mutation" on the tradition that separated consciousness from intentionality. I, thus, explain how Brentano's intentionality theory of the essence of consciousness and the mental provided a template for Freud's dismantling of the Cartesian tradition by Freud's accepting intentionality as the essence of the mental but disengaging intentionality from consciousness.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96343-3_7
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Wakefield, J. C. (2018). Cartesianism without the consciousness criterion: solving the mystery of Freud's missing account of the mental, in Freud and philosophy of mind I, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 211-240.
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