The Unconscious without Freud
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- 2013
Summary
During the first ten years of his career in psychological medicine, Sigmund Freud espoused a theory of unconsciousness which predated his own. As Rosemarie Sand describes in The Unconscious without Freud, he would evolve this theory over the course of his career and eventually apply it to his own psychological practice. Once Freud's hypothesis of unconscious mental functioning was published, the same professionals who had valued the traditional concept turned against what they considered to be a catastrophic, logically indefensible revision. The scientific investigation of unconscious influences was retarded for decades as a war zone opened between implacable opponents and intransigent defenders of the Freudian concept of unconscious mind. In the din of this battle, the traditional theory, free of the features which Freud's foes could not accept, was forgotten. Sand argues that a return to this original theory, which psychotherapists and experimenters might both espouse, could contribute to a cessation of hostilities and lead to the peaceful development of a theory of the unconscious—one that is free from the stigma that is currently attached to Freudian theory.
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- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-3173-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-3174-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 173
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- Contents No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Preface No access
- 1 Leibniz and the Unconscious No access Pages 1 - 20
- 2 Psychodynamics No access Pages 21 - 26
- 3 The Light and the Dark in the Mind No access Pages 27 - 38
- 4 The Power of Dark Ideas No access Pages 39 - 50
- 5 The Leibnizian Brain No access Pages 51 - 58
- 6 Dark Ideas and Free Association No access Pages 59 - 66
- 7 The Cartesian Unconscious No access Pages 67 - 76
- 8 The Demonic Unconscious No access Pages 77 - 92
- 9 The Romantic Imagination No access Pages 93 - 108
- 10 Schopenhauer: Ego and Id No access Pages 109 - 118
- 11 Hartmann: The Best Seller No access Pages 119 - 130
- 12 The Ghost in the Freudian Mansion No access Pages 131 - 142
- 13 The Psychic Mechanism No access Pages 143 - 152
- 14 The Herbartian Legacy No access Pages 153 - 162
- References No access Pages 163 - 168
- Index No access Pages 169 - 172
- About the Author No access Pages 173 - 173





