tailieunhanh - The Foundation of the Unconscious Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche

The historiography of psychoanalysis needs radical revision. This book poses the question: where does psychoanalysis begin? Which is to ask both when can we begin with it historically, and how exactly does it emerge? The conventional answer to those questions has, for many decades, been the one provided by Freud himself: that it begins in Vienna, out of a combination of Freud's private clinical work with neurotics, his collaboration with Josef Breuer in the treatment of hysteria, and the period of depression which inaugurates his own self-analysis in the 1890s, all of which fed into the genesis of the Interpretation of Dreams —the work which for many marks opening. | MATT FFYTCHE The Foundation of the UNCONSCIOUS Schelling Freud and the Birth of the Cambridge The Foundation of the Unconscious The unconscious cornerstone of psychoanalysis was a key twentiethcentury concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea And why at that point This interdisciplinary study breaks new ground in tracing the emergence of the unconscious through the work of philosopher Friedrich Schelling examining his association with Romantic psychologists anthropologists and theorists of nature. It sets out the beginnings of a neglected tradition of the unconscious psyche and proposes a compelling new argument that the unconscious develops from the modern need to theorise individual independence. The book assesses the impact of this tradition on psychoanalysis itself re-reading Freud s The Interpretation of Dreams in the light of broader post-Enlightenment attempts to theorise individuality. MATT FFYTCHE is a lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex. His research focuses on the history of psychoanalysis and critical theories of subjectivity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is a co-editor of the web-based digital archive Deviance Disorder and the Self . The Foundation of the Unconscious Schelling Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche Matt ffytche Cambridge UNIVERSITY .