| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Since Freud's earliest psychoanalytic theorisation around the beginning of the twentieth-century, the concept of the unconscious has exerted an enormous influence upon psychoanalysis and psychology, literary, critical and social theory. Yet prior to Freud, the concept of the unconscious already possessed a complex genealogy in nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature, beginning with the aftermath of Kant's Critical Philosophy and the origins of German Idealism, and extending into the discourses of Romanticism and beyond. Despite the many key thinkers who contributed to the Germanic discourses on the unconscious, the English speaking world remains comparatively unaware of this heritage and its influence upon the origins of psychoanalysis. Bringing together a collection of experts in the fields of German Studies, Continental Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Psychoanalysis, this volume examines the various theorisations, representations and transformations undergone by the concept of the unconscious in nineteenth-century German thought"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: thinking the unconscious / Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher -- 1. Unconscious from the storm and stress to Weimar classicism: the dialectic of time and pleasure / Paul Bishop -- 2. Philosophical significance of Schelling's conception of the unconscious / Andrew Bowie -- 3. Scientific unconscious: Goethe's post-Kantian epistemology / Angus Nicholls -- 4. Hidden agent of the self: towards an aesthetic theory of the non-conscious in German romanticism / Rüdiger Görner -- 5. Real essence of human beings: Schopenhauer and the unconscious will / Christopher Janaway -- 6. Carl Gustav Carus and the science of the unconscious / Matthew Bell -- 7. Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophy of the unconscious / Sebastian Gardner -- 8. Gustav Theodor Fechner and the unconscious / Michael Heidelberger -- 9. Friedrich Nietzsche's perspectives on the unconscious / Martin Liebscher -- 10. Freud and nineteenth century philosophical sources on the unconscious / Günter Gödde -- Epilogue: The 'optional' unconscious / Sonu Shamdasani. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, German. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nicholls, Angus (Angus James), 1972-
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Liebscher, Martin, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thinking the unconscious. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521897532 (DLC) 2010000059 (OCoLC)456170488 |
| ISBN |
9780511713101 (electronic book) |
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051171310X (electronic book) |
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9780511715198 (ebook) |
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0511715196 (ebook) |
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0511716435 (e-book) |
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9780511716430 (e-book) |
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9780511712272 (ebook) |
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0511712278 (ebook) |
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9780521897532 (hardback) |
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052189753X (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612637261 |
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