Requiem for the Ego

Requiem for the Ego
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780804788304
ISBN-13 : 0804788308
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Book Synopsis Requiem for the Ego by : Alfred I. Tauber

Download or read book Requiem for the Ego written by Alfred I. Tauber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of defining agency and describing subjectivity. In Requiem, Tauber uniquely synthesizes these philosophical attacks against psychoanalysis and, more generally, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major developments in mid-20th century philosophy that prepared the conceptual grounding for postmodernism.


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