Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation
Overview
If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a “grand philosophy of language,” then the first sixty pages of this absorbing study of Freud may become the rallying point from which future work can begin.
This first part of Freud and Philosophy, “Problematic,” presents a profound and clear theory of signification, symbol, and interpretation. The second part, “A Reading of Freud,” is required reading for anyone seriously interested in psychoanalysis. The third section interpretation of Ricoeur’s own theory of symbol—particularly religious symbol—which places this study at the center of contemporary debate over the sense of myth.
In this book are revealed Ricoeur the philosopher of language; Ricoeur the critic of Freud; and Ricoeur the theologian of religious symbol. The author is outstanding in all three roles, and the book that emerges is of rare profundity, enormous scope, and complete timeliness. Paul Ricoeur is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris.
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- Centers on the new understanding of man introduced by Freud
- Presents mainly a book of philosphy
- Provides a discussion or debate with Freud, composed of a wide field of questioning
Book I: Problematic: The Placing of Freud
- Language, Symbol , and Interpretation
- The Conflic of Interpretations
- Hermeneutic Method and Reflective Philosophy
Book II: Analytic: Reading of Freud
- Introduction: How to Read Freud
- Part I: Energetics and Hermeneutics - The Epistemological Problem in Freudism
- An Energetics Without Hermeneutics
- Energetics and Hermeneutics in The Interpretation of Dreams
- Instinct and Idea in the “Papers on Metapsychology”
- Part II: The Interpretation of Culture
- The Analogy of Dreams
- From the Oneiric to the Sublime
- Illusion
- Part III: Eros, Thantos, Ananke
- The Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle
- The Death Instincts: Speculation and Interpretation
- Interrogations
Book III: Dialectic: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud
- Epistemology: Between Psychology and Phenomenology
- Reflection: An Archeology of the Subject
- Dialectic: Archeology and Teleology
- Hermeneutics: The Approaches to Symbol
Paul Ricouer…has done a study that is all too rare these days, in which one intellect comes to grips with another, in which a scholar devotes himself to a thoughtful, searching, and comprehensive study of a genius…The final result is a unique survey of the panorama of Freudian thought by an observer who, although starting from outside, succeeds in penetrating to its core.
American Journal of Psychiatry
Primarily an inquiry into the foundations of language and hermeneutics…[Ricoeur uses] the Freudian ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ as a corrective and counter-balance for phenomenology and create a ‘new phenomenology’…This important work…should have an impact upon serious thinking in philosophy, theology, psychology, and other areas which have been affected by Freud studies.
International Philosophical Quarterly
A stimulating tour de force that allows us to envisage both the psychoanalytic body of knowledge and the psychoanalytic movement in a broad perspective within the framework of its links to culture, history and the evolution of Western intellectual thought.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly
- Title: Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation
- Author: Paul Ricoeur
- Series: The Terry Lectures Series
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Print Publication Date: 1977
- Pages: 592
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:FRDPHLSNTRPRTTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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