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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
2018
382 Pages
ISBN 978-3-319-96342-6
Freud and philosophy of mind I
reconstructing the argument for unconscious mental states
Jerome C. Wakefield
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 thatin effect set the agenda for latter-twentieth-century philosophy of mind.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96343-3
Full citation:
Wakefield, J. C. (2018). Freud and philosophy of mind I: reconstructing the argument for unconscious mental states, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
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