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The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche
Contributor(s): Ffytche, Matt (Author)
ISBN: 0521766494     ISBN-13: 9780521766494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $96.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | History
Dewey: 154.209
LCCN: 2011031544
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 322 pages
 
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The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study breaks new ground in tracing the emergence of the unconscious through the work of philosopher Friedrich Schelling, examining his association with Romantic psychologists, anthropologists and theorists of nature. It sets out the beginnings of a neglected tradition of the unconscious psyche and proposes a compelling new argument: that the unconscious develops from the modern need to theorise individual independence. The book assesses the impact of this tradition on psychoanalysis itself, re-reading Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in the light of broader post-Enlightenment attempts to theorise individuality.

Contributor Bio(s): Ffytche, Matt: - Dr Matt Ffytche has lectured in the Department of English and the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London, and is now a Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is co-editor of the web-based digital archive, 'Deviance, Disorder and the Self'. His research focuses on the history of psychoanalysis and critical theories of subjectivity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.