The Unconscious without Freud

Rosemarie Sponner Sand

doi:10.5771/9781442231740

The Unconscious without Freud

Erschienen 2013

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doi.org/10.5771/9781442231740
ISBN print: 978-1-4422-3173-3
ISBN online: 978-1-4422-3174-0
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

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i–xiv Preface i–xiv
1–20 1 Leibniz and the Unconscious 1–20
21–26 2 Psychodynamics 21–26
27–38 3 The Light and the Dark in the Mind 27–38
39–50 4 The Power of Dark Ideas 39–50
51–58 5 The Leibnizian Brain 51–58
59–66 6 Dark Ideas and Free Association 59–66
67–76 7 The Cartesian Unconscious 67–76
77–92 8 The Demonic Unconscious 77–92
93–108 9 The Romantic Imagination 93–108
109–118 10 Schopenhauer: Ego and Id 109–118
119–130 11 Hartmann: The Best Seller 119–130
131–142 12 The Ghost in the Freudian Mansion 131–142
143–152 13 The Psychic Mechanism 143–152
153–162 14 The Herbartian Legacy 153–162
163–168 References 163–168
169–172 Index 169–172
173–173 About the Author 173–173

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