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噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇貙 賮蹖賱爻賵賮 賵 丕爻鬲丕丿 賲賲鬲丕夭 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 卮蹖讴丕诏賵 賵 亘乇賳丿賴贁 噩丕蹖夭踿 芦丿爻鬲丕賵乇丿 賲賲鬲丕夭 亘賳蹖丕丿 丕賳丿乇賵 賲賱賵賳禄 丿乇 賵蹖乇丕爻鬲 丿賵賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕賳丿蹖卮踿 賮乇賵蹖丿 乇丕 爻乇丕爻乇 卮乇丨 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 賵 丕乇夭蹖丕亘蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 丌賳鈥屬囐� 亘丕 鬲賲乇讴夭 亘乇 丨蹖胤賴鈥屬囏й屰� 丕夭 賮賱爻賮賴 讴賴 诏賮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 鬲兀孬蹖乇蹖 倬丕蹖丿丕乇 亘乇 丌賳賴丕 丿丕卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲貨 丕夭 噩賲賱賴 賮賱爻賮踿 匕賴賳貙 丕乇丕丿踿 丌夭丕丿 賵 鬲毓蹖賾賳鈥屭必й屰屫� 毓賯賱丕賳蹖鬲貙 賲丕賴蹖鬲 芦禺賵丿禄 賵 匕賴賳蹖鬲貙 丕禺賱丕賯 賵 丿蹖賳. 賴賲趩賳蹖賳 亘賴 卮賲丕乇蹖 丕夭 賲爻丕卅賱 賵 賲亘丕丨孬 毓賲蹖賯鈥屫臂� 賴賲 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 讴賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 亘丕 丌賳 丿爻鬲 亘賴 诏乇蹖亘丕賳 亘賵丿賴 賵 丕賴賲蹖鬲 賮賱爻賮蹖 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘丕 賲賴丕乇鬲 亘爻蹖丕乇 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲: 賲蹖賱 噩賳爻蹖 丌丿賲蹖貙 賳丕賴卮蹖丕乇貙 乇丐蹖丕 賵 賳馗乇蹖踿 丕賳鬲賯丕賱.
賮蹖賱爻賵賮丕賳 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 亘賴 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丿爻鬲丕賵乇丿蹖 毓馗蹖賲 禺賵丕賴賳丿 蹖丕賮鬲. 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丕夭 丕爻鬲丕丿丕賳 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賵 鬲丕乇蹖禺 丕賳丿蹖卮賴 賳蹖夭 讴賴 亘賴 鬲丿乇蹖爻 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕卮鬲睾丕賱 丿丕乇賳丿貙 丌賳 乇丕 禺賵丕賴賳丿 禺賵丕賳丿 賵 亘丕 卮賵乇 賵 丕卮鬲蹖丕賯 亘賴 亘丨孬 禺賵丕賴賳丿 賳卮爻鬲.
乇蹖趩丕乇丿 乇賵乇鬲蹖貙 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 丕爻鬲賳賮賵乇丿貙 丕賲乇蹖讴丕
丕诏乇 亘賳丕 亘丕卮丿 亘賴 丕蹖賳 倬乇爻卮 倬丕爻禺 丿賴賲 讴賴 丿乇賲蹖丕賳 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵丕賳 賲毓丕氐乇趩賴 讴爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 丿乇丌賲丿蹖 亘乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿乇 賲賯丕賲 賮蹖賱爻賵賮 卮丕蹖爻鬲賴鈥屫臂屬嗀ж池� 丕賳鬲禺丕亘賲 讴爻蹖 賳禺賵丕賴丿亘賵丿噩夭 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇.
丕爻賱丕賵購蹖 跇蹖跇讴貙 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 賱賵亘賱蹖丕賳丕貙 丕爻賱賵賵賳蹖
賮蹖賱爻賵賮丕賳 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 亘賴 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丿爻鬲丕賵乇丿蹖 毓馗蹖賲 禺賵丕賴賳丿 蹖丕賮鬲. 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丕夭 丕爻鬲丕丿丕賳 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賵 鬲丕乇蹖禺 丕賳丿蹖卮賴 賳蹖夭 讴賴 亘賴 鬲丿乇蹖爻 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕卮鬲睾丕賱 丿丕乇賳丿貙 丌賳 乇丕 禺賵丕賴賳丿 禺賵丕賳丿 賵 亘丕 卮賵乇 賵 丕卮鬲蹖丕賯 亘賴 亘丨孬 禺賵丕賴賳丿 賳卮爻鬲.
乇蹖趩丕乇丿 乇賵乇鬲蹖貙 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 丕爻鬲賳賮賵乇丿貙 丕賲乇蹖讴丕
丕诏乇 亘賳丕 亘丕卮丿 亘賴 丕蹖賳 倬乇爻卮 倬丕爻禺 丿賴賲 讴賴 丿乇賲蹖丕賳 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵丕賳 賲毓丕氐乇趩賴 讴爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 丿乇丌賲丿蹖 亘乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿乇 賲賯丕賲 賮蹖賱爻賵賮 卮丕蹖爻鬲賴鈥屫臂屬嗀ж池� 丕賳鬲禺丕亘賲 讴爻蹖 賳禺賵丕賴丿亘賵丿噩夭 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇.
丕爻賱丕賵購蹖 跇蹖跇讴貙 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 賱賵亘賱蹖丕賳丕貙 丕爻賱賵賵賳蹖
414 pages, Hardcover
First published June 15, 2005
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Jonathan Lear
49听books60听followersJonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2014 to 2022.
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May 30, 2024
鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 賵 丿賯蹖賯 賵 趩丕倬 鬲賲蹖夭 賳卮乇 賳賵貙 賱匕鬲 禺賵賳丿賳卮 乇賵 趩賳丿蹖賳 亘乇丕亘乇 讴乇丿.
April 21, 2021
丿乇 亘丕亘賽 卮乇丨 賵 卮賮丕賮鈥屫池ж槽屬� 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿貙 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 丕夭 賴乇 噩賴鬲 亘蹖 賳賯氐 毓賲賱 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲. 亘乇乇爻蹖 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿蹖 蹖丕 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 鬲丨賱蹖賱蹖 賮賱爻賮蹖 亘丕 賳蹖賲 賳诏丕賴蹖 亘賴 賮賱爻賮賴 丕乇爻胤賵蹖蹖貙 賲賵噩亘 卮丿賴 芦賮乇賵蹖丿-噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇禄 亘賴 丕孬乇 賲賳丨氐乇亘賴鈥屬佖必� 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮賵丿. 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賴賲鬲乇蹖賳 丕賯丿丕賲丕鬲 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇貙 亘乇胤乇賮 讴乇丿賳賽 爻賵亍 鬲賮丕賴賲 賴丕 賵 爻賵亍賽 賮賴賲 賴丕蹖 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕爻鬲. 丕鬲賮丕賯賽 賲孬亘鬲賽 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 亘賴 丕賴賲蹖鬲賽 讴鬲丕亘 丕賮夭賵丿賴貙 鬲丨賱蹖賱賽 賮賱爻賮蹖-乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖賽 倬乇賵賳丿賴 亘蹖賲丕乇丕賳賽 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕爻鬲. 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 丕夭 鬲丨賱蹖賱蹖 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖蹖 賲蹖 丌睾丕夭丿 賵 爻倬爻 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇丕 亘丕 鬲丨賱蹖賱 賴丕蹖 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 賵 亘爻蹖丕乇 賲賴賲賽 乇賵亘乇賵 賲蹖 讴賳丿. 鬲乇噩賲賴 亘蹖 賳賯氐 賵 丿賯蹖賯 丕爻鬲 賵 倬丕賵乇賯蹖 賴丕 賵 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲賽 賲鬲乇噩賲丕賳賽 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 賲賵噩亘丕鬲賽 賮賴賲賽 倬丕乇賴 丕蹖 丕夭 賲賵丕乇丿 丿卮賵丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 賮乇丕賴賲 讴乇丿賴 丕賳丿.
倬. 賳 : 芦賮乇賵蹖丿-噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇禄 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴 賲孬丕亘賴 賲亘丕賳蹖 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 賱丕夭賲賴 禺賵丕賳卮賽 讴鬲丕亘貙 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 丕噩賲丕賱蹖 亘丕 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿蹖 丕爻鬲.
倬. 賳 : 芦賮乇賵蹖丿-噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇禄 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴 賲孬丕亘賴 賲亘丕賳蹖 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 賱丕夭賲賴 禺賵丕賳卮賽 讴鬲丕亘貙 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 丕噩賲丕賱蹖 亘丕 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿蹖 丕爻鬲.
September 19, 2021
It is a readable introduction to Freud the philosopher, and it is written in a fairly accessible language. It does, however, seem rather superficial at times and never really get to grips with the aspects of Freud鈥檚 work that I find most central to his philosophical position. Interesting in its links to Plato, but there's just a little too much Lear in the interpretation and possibly not enough Freud.
January 27, 2021
鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賲鬲賵噩賴 卮丿賲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屰� 讴鬲丕亘貙 噩賳丕亘 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 賲鬲丕孬乇 丕夭 丕乇爻胤賵 賴爻鬲 賵 丕蹖賳 丿乇 丿乇讴 賵 乇賵丕蹖鬲卮 丕夭 賮乇賵蹖丿 -丨丿丕賯賱 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘- 亘爻蹖丕乇 賲賵孬乇 亘賵丿賴. 毓賱丕賵賴 亘乇 丕蹖賳 丿爻鬲 讴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 讴賴 賯亘賱丕 賴蹖趩蹖 丕夭 賮乇賵蹖丿 賳禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 亘毓囟蹖 噩丕賴丕 賯丕亘賱 鬲卮禺蹖氐 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 丿蹖丿诏丕賴蹖 讴賴 賲胤乇丨 賲蹖卮賴 丿蹖丿诏丕賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 賴爻鬲 蹖丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賵噩賵丿 趩卮賲鈥屫з嗀ж� 禺賵亘蹖 丿乇 胤乇丨 賲爻丕賱賴 賵 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖蹖 亘丕 賮乇賵蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丿丕卮鬲.
鬲乇噩賲賴 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 亘爻蹖丕乇 丿賯蹖賯 亘賵丿 賵 丕賲鬲蹖丕夭 趩賴丕乇賲 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 賲蹖丿賲.
鬲乇噩賲賴 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 亘爻蹖丕乇 丿賯蹖賯 亘賵丿 賵 丕賲鬲蹖丕夭 趩賴丕乇賲 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 賲蹖丿賲.
January 7, 2020
This book was an answer to my prayers.
No no!
Not really!
I don鈥檛 actually do that.
But if I did.
I would have prayed all last year for a great new book on psychoanalysis.
And then this book would have dropped and that would have made it seem like it worked.
Anyway.
This is a great book.
It鈥檚 a well written, economical, plain spoken contemporary elucidation of Freudian psychoanalysis, written by the clearly insightful, skillful and erudite psychoanalyst and philosopher Johnathan Lear.
Lear posits that the prime directive of psychoanalysis is for the analysand to observe their own experiences, and say whatever comes to mind, without self censorship, for the sake of brining the fullness of their psychological existence into conscious awareness.
All of the other special structures and constructs of the psychoanalytic 鈥榮ituation鈥� are designed specifically to foster this outcome.
That鈥檚 so clear.
I really really wanted someone to come along and write a book like this.
And he did.
And I鈥檓 so dang happy about it.
I honestly can鈥檛 even!
Yass mama yass!!!!
The 馃摉 hit the 馃幆
No no!
Not really!
I don鈥檛 actually do that.
But if I did.
I would have prayed all last year for a great new book on psychoanalysis.
And then this book would have dropped and that would have made it seem like it worked.
Anyway.
This is a great book.
It鈥檚 a well written, economical, plain spoken contemporary elucidation of Freudian psychoanalysis, written by the clearly insightful, skillful and erudite psychoanalyst and philosopher Johnathan Lear.
Lear posits that the prime directive of psychoanalysis is for the analysand to observe their own experiences, and say whatever comes to mind, without self censorship, for the sake of brining the fullness of their psychological existence into conscious awareness.
All of the other special structures and constructs of the psychoanalytic 鈥榮ituation鈥� are designed specifically to foster this outcome.
That鈥檚 so clear.
I really really wanted someone to come along and write a book like this.
And he did.
And I鈥檓 so dang happy about it.
I honestly can鈥檛 even!
Yass mama yass!!!!
The 馃摉 hit the 馃幆
February 7, 2023
亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 讴爻蹖 讴賴 鬲丕 丕賱丕賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丿乇 丕蹖賳 夭賲蹖賳賴 賳禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丕 禺賵賳丿賳卮 乇丕丨鬲 亘賵丿賲. 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 鬲賵蹖 賴乇 賯爻賲鬲 賲爻卅賱賴鈥屸€屫й� 讴賴 丿乇 亘乇禺蹖 賲賵丕乇丿 亘蹖賲丕乇鈥屬囏й� 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 丿乇 亘乇禺蹖 賲賵丕乇丿 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏� 亘賴 胤賵乇 讴賱蹖 亘丕卮 賲賵丕噩賴 賴爻鬲賳丿 乇賵 卮乇丨 賲蹖丿賴貙 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賵賳 賳馗乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿乇 乇丕亘胤賴 亘丕 賲爻卅賱賴 乇賵 卮乇丨 賲蹖丿賴 賵 丿乇 丌禺乇 丿乇 亘乇禺蹖 賲賵丕乇丿 賳馗乇丕鬲 賮乇賵蹖丿 乇賵 賳賯丿 賲蹖讴賳賴貙 賵 丕賳賯丿乇 丕蹖賳讴丕乇 乇賵 亘丕 賳馗賲 禺賵亘蹖 丕賳噩丕賲 賲蹖丿賴 讴賴 賴賲 亘賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賴 卮丿賳 賲胤丕賱亘 讴賲讴 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 賴賲 禺賵賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿 賲蹖讴賳賴.
August 1, 2023
鈥� 鈻� 丿乇賲丕賳蹖 亘乇 蹖讴 丿乇賲丕賳
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鉁嶏笍 賳蹖賲丕 卮乇蹖賮蹖
@nashrenow
July 8, 2021
Lucid and accessible philosophical introduction to Freud that is critical yet sympathetic (my favorite kind of introductions!) Argues, contra Donald Davidson, that the unconscious ought not to be thought of as a "second mind". I am rather new to Freud but I found Lear's argument rather compelling, I do think the mind ought to be thought of holistically that may be divided (preconscious, unconscious, subconscious, conscious...) but it is still "one"... I guess a kind of cognitive monism? I don't know. His chapter on dream analysis was very compelling but I felt he could have articulated condensation and displacement a bit better (I needed outside reading material to better comprehend it - the fault in lack of understanding could be my own!) but either way it fairly radically shifted the way I look at dreams. The concept of transference seems tricky (he even admits it is not very well understood in psychoanalysis itself!) but I thought Lear did a good job articulating this concept at an introductory level (though it was still quite complicated and I'm not sure I quite get the full gist of it!). The pleasure/reality principle stuff is neat and Lear's critique of the death drive was interesting, but I didn't quite understand it to be honest haha. Lear's articulating of the id/ego/superego and its genealogical formation and the Oedipus complex were really good, I was enthralled with it: gave me a lot to think about! I think Freud's theory of morality and religion are quite interesting (and like most of his theories fairly weird) but I do think Lear pretty much demolished it with his critique (Lear admits its the weakest part of Freud's theory and from what I know I tend to agree, though it is still an interesting thing to read about...Freud essentially constructs his own myth to explain mythologies). Overall, very good introduction to Freud and I feel like it is accessible to most people, the chapter on Transference was by far the hardest one to grasp, but this is a perfect introduction for someone with a little bit of experience of reading academic texts (like, say, a freshman undergrad). Maybe not the absolute best "baby's first Freud" book but I can't imagine one being better while also still being as academically rigorous yet compelling.
January 20, 2021
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June 26, 2020
Lear states that his purpose in this book is to give a "philosophical" introduction to Freud's thought. I anticipated that this would involve analyzing Freud's implicit metaphysical assumptions, or connecting his ideas to issues in philosophy of mind, etc. Lear does none of that. This rather feels like a summary of Freud's key ideas; there is no philosophical explication of their broader significance, or philosophical argument for their legitimacy. Some of my dissatisfaction comes from this violation of expectations.
The rest of my dissatisfaction stems from my attitudes toward Freud's ideas themselves. I've been suspicious of Freud's work, and was hoping that reading Lear's understanding of Freud (Lear, as a philosopher whose work I admire) would change my mind. It did not. Reading this book affirms my sense that Freudian psychoanalytic theory is very much like a religion. It provides a seemingly comprehensive framework to understand our human nature and to explain our experiences. But its principles are reductive and ungrounded, as much as the principles in any given religion are. The hype over and acceptance of psychoanalytic theory is perhaps due to the same factors that contribute to the acceptance of religions. Their explanations offer guidance and meaning to the most confusing and painful areas of experience.
Moreover, I think Freud's ideas can flourish only in the individualistic, narcissistic, capitalist culture of our day. It would baffle people from communalist cultures how one could think it is a good idea to talk and think about ourselves - without thinking about the broader world, history, and our communities - for hours on end. Criticisms of self-help culture are pretty much applicable to Freudian psychoanalysis, from the understanding of psychoanalysis that Lear's book has left to me.
Let me give some examples and summarize some parts of this book. Freud believes that there is an unconscious that has dispositions, very much like our conscious dispositions. The difference is that the unconscious's dispositions are not targeted at specific individuals or events; they are more general emotional impulses. In contrast, our dispositions and attitudes are directed at particulars. Moreover, the unconscious is fundamentally sexual. If this view on the structure of the mind is appealing, I think it is because it captures the fact that we can have mental states that do not have particular propositional or conceptual content. But one does not need to posit a second agential force inside ourselves, distinct from our own, (let alone a force that is sexual in nature) to account for this fact. We can just posit that there is a range of kinds of dispositions and experiences we are capable of; some are conceptual, and others are not. I think a more useful framework for understanding this fact is that there are conceptual and non-conceptual elements of most mental states. We can examine mental states in terms of these two kinds of aspects; there is no need to posit a second agent or personality is the source of all the non-conceptual elements.
Freud, moreover, believed that the act of interpreting our dreams gives us insight into the unconscious. This seems like a load of nonsense. If the ways we interpret something shed light on the non-conceptual, emotional drives that back up and color our experience, evaluating our interpretations of anything, not just dreams, should do the trick with letting us understand our emotions. Freud does not provide any convincing argument for his claim that the contents of dreams are all hyper significant, reflecting our desires and fears. The competing thesis is that the contents of dreams are quite random, or re-hashing of imagery and experiences from our lives; the support for this is that songs and images can get stuck in our heads for reasons totally unrelated to our desires and fears (e.g., the song is simply catchy). Freud's approach to dream analysis is tantamount to the affirmation of forming conspiracy theories about anything we wish, without requiring actual facts or evidence to support such theories.
Freud also proposes the reality principle, the pleasure principle, and the death drive. He thinks that our experience is ontogenetically originally driven by the pleasure principle; we seek out pleasure, and understand reality in such a way as to promote the attainment of pleasures (e.g., an infant hallucinates the mother's breast, because this gives pleasure, and the infant believes that the breast actually exists in doing this). It is a cognitive achievement to let the reality principle structure our experience; the reality principle simply refers to our sensitivities to how the world actually works, independently of our needs and pleasures. Why do we need this elaborate positing of fundamental psychic 'principles'? It is commonsense that we seek out pleasure, and this disposition influences the beliefs we form and the ways we go about the world. There are many different, fine-grained psychological explanations that could be offered to examine this in detail. The 'explanation' of these two principles is both reductive, and doesn't actually offer much explanatory power; it doesn't help us understand the psychological mechanisms that are going on, whose manipulation could help us intervene on our experience.
The most insightful point of psychoanalysis, which Lear keeps up as a theme running throughout the chapters, is about the nature of psychological healing. Healing does not happen when we form the correct beliefs, or make discoveries that explain out pasts. Rather, healing happens when we are engaged in our pathological behaviors live-time, have this behavior disrupted (e.g., by reflecting and self-awareness; by a psychoanalyst), and then change our route activity and complete the behavior in such a way as to give it a new form. But this point is not unique to psychoanalysis. Behaviorist approaches in psychology focus and expand on this point. Moreover, William James, who preceded Freud by half a century, makes this point in his analyses on the nature of habit.
I might not be doing Freud justice for how innovative and important his ideas are. Maybe I can be critical of him because the conceptual resources to which I have access are already influenced and enhanced by Freud's discoveries about the existence of the unconscious. But at Freud's time, his points were momentous, and before him no one thought about psychological dynamics between the unconscious and conscious. But that simply isn't true. Philosophers for a very long time have talked about the force of emotion and impulse, and the disconnect between those and reason. Moreover, philosophers have known about unconscious processes and mechanisms, and posited how they structure our conscious experience (Hume, Kant). I set out hoping to have my mind changed about Freud, to see his importance. But with all the charity I can muster, I think his insightful/correct points have already been made by other thinkers preceding him, and his misleading/incorrect points are nicely disguised and are believed in religiously by too many.
I'm writing this all out because writing reviews helps me remember my reading experience; but also because I think Freudian ideas are positively destructive and unhelpful, and I wish for people to be more critical towards him. The ideas are destructive in that the explanatory entities that are posited to account for our experiences are all located inside one's psyche. When Freud understands that the individual's relationships to others shape one's development, he acknowledges these relationships only as, or in the form of, an internal, psychological structure the individual possesses, a structure that she imposes on the world. There is no mention of politics, culture, or history, and how these fundamentally shape the possibilities of relationships and experiences.
Nonetheless, this book is written quite clearly, and is well organized. I'd recommend it for readers who want an introduction to Freud's central ideas. But do not expect a philosophical take or analysis of these ideas; and take caution in one's evaluation of them. Lear does not provide any resources to help us evaluate Freud; he states that he largely agrees with psychoanalytic theory. So his writing can make it difficult to critically evaluate Freud, or at least does not aid in providing a critical lens.
The rest of my dissatisfaction stems from my attitudes toward Freud's ideas themselves. I've been suspicious of Freud's work, and was hoping that reading Lear's understanding of Freud (Lear, as a philosopher whose work I admire) would change my mind. It did not. Reading this book affirms my sense that Freudian psychoanalytic theory is very much like a religion. It provides a seemingly comprehensive framework to understand our human nature and to explain our experiences. But its principles are reductive and ungrounded, as much as the principles in any given religion are. The hype over and acceptance of psychoanalytic theory is perhaps due to the same factors that contribute to the acceptance of religions. Their explanations offer guidance and meaning to the most confusing and painful areas of experience.
Moreover, I think Freud's ideas can flourish only in the individualistic, narcissistic, capitalist culture of our day. It would baffle people from communalist cultures how one could think it is a good idea to talk and think about ourselves - without thinking about the broader world, history, and our communities - for hours on end. Criticisms of self-help culture are pretty much applicable to Freudian psychoanalysis, from the understanding of psychoanalysis that Lear's book has left to me.
Let me give some examples and summarize some parts of this book. Freud believes that there is an unconscious that has dispositions, very much like our conscious dispositions. The difference is that the unconscious's dispositions are not targeted at specific individuals or events; they are more general emotional impulses. In contrast, our dispositions and attitudes are directed at particulars. Moreover, the unconscious is fundamentally sexual. If this view on the structure of the mind is appealing, I think it is because it captures the fact that we can have mental states that do not have particular propositional or conceptual content. But one does not need to posit a second agential force inside ourselves, distinct from our own, (let alone a force that is sexual in nature) to account for this fact. We can just posit that there is a range of kinds of dispositions and experiences we are capable of; some are conceptual, and others are not. I think a more useful framework for understanding this fact is that there are conceptual and non-conceptual elements of most mental states. We can examine mental states in terms of these two kinds of aspects; there is no need to posit a second agent or personality is the source of all the non-conceptual elements.
Freud, moreover, believed that the act of interpreting our dreams gives us insight into the unconscious. This seems like a load of nonsense. If the ways we interpret something shed light on the non-conceptual, emotional drives that back up and color our experience, evaluating our interpretations of anything, not just dreams, should do the trick with letting us understand our emotions. Freud does not provide any convincing argument for his claim that the contents of dreams are all hyper significant, reflecting our desires and fears. The competing thesis is that the contents of dreams are quite random, or re-hashing of imagery and experiences from our lives; the support for this is that songs and images can get stuck in our heads for reasons totally unrelated to our desires and fears (e.g., the song is simply catchy). Freud's approach to dream analysis is tantamount to the affirmation of forming conspiracy theories about anything we wish, without requiring actual facts or evidence to support such theories.
Freud also proposes the reality principle, the pleasure principle, and the death drive. He thinks that our experience is ontogenetically originally driven by the pleasure principle; we seek out pleasure, and understand reality in such a way as to promote the attainment of pleasures (e.g., an infant hallucinates the mother's breast, because this gives pleasure, and the infant believes that the breast actually exists in doing this). It is a cognitive achievement to let the reality principle structure our experience; the reality principle simply refers to our sensitivities to how the world actually works, independently of our needs and pleasures. Why do we need this elaborate positing of fundamental psychic 'principles'? It is commonsense that we seek out pleasure, and this disposition influences the beliefs we form and the ways we go about the world. There are many different, fine-grained psychological explanations that could be offered to examine this in detail. The 'explanation' of these two principles is both reductive, and doesn't actually offer much explanatory power; it doesn't help us understand the psychological mechanisms that are going on, whose manipulation could help us intervene on our experience.
The most insightful point of psychoanalysis, which Lear keeps up as a theme running throughout the chapters, is about the nature of psychological healing. Healing does not happen when we form the correct beliefs, or make discoveries that explain out pasts. Rather, healing happens when we are engaged in our pathological behaviors live-time, have this behavior disrupted (e.g., by reflecting and self-awareness; by a psychoanalyst), and then change our route activity and complete the behavior in such a way as to give it a new form. But this point is not unique to psychoanalysis. Behaviorist approaches in psychology focus and expand on this point. Moreover, William James, who preceded Freud by half a century, makes this point in his analyses on the nature of habit.
I might not be doing Freud justice for how innovative and important his ideas are. Maybe I can be critical of him because the conceptual resources to which I have access are already influenced and enhanced by Freud's discoveries about the existence of the unconscious. But at Freud's time, his points were momentous, and before him no one thought about psychological dynamics between the unconscious and conscious. But that simply isn't true. Philosophers for a very long time have talked about the force of emotion and impulse, and the disconnect between those and reason. Moreover, philosophers have known about unconscious processes and mechanisms, and posited how they structure our conscious experience (Hume, Kant). I set out hoping to have my mind changed about Freud, to see his importance. But with all the charity I can muster, I think his insightful/correct points have already been made by other thinkers preceding him, and his misleading/incorrect points are nicely disguised and are believed in religiously by too many.
I'm writing this all out because writing reviews helps me remember my reading experience; but also because I think Freudian ideas are positively destructive and unhelpful, and I wish for people to be more critical towards him. The ideas are destructive in that the explanatory entities that are posited to account for our experiences are all located inside one's psyche. When Freud understands that the individual's relationships to others shape one's development, he acknowledges these relationships only as, or in the form of, an internal, psychological structure the individual possesses, a structure that she imposes on the world. There is no mention of politics, culture, or history, and how these fundamentally shape the possibilities of relationships and experiences.
Nonetheless, this book is written quite clearly, and is well organized. I'd recommend it for readers who want an introduction to Freud's central ideas. But do not expect a philosophical take or analysis of these ideas; and take caution in one's evaluation of them. Lear does not provide any resources to help us evaluate Freud; he states that he largely agrees with psychoanalytic theory. So his writing can make it difficult to critically evaluate Freud, or at least does not aid in providing a critical lens.
April 11, 2022
噩丕賱亘賴 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 蹖丕丿賲 乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿賴 亘夭賳賲 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 鬲賲賵賲 讴乇丿賲. 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 讴賱蹖 讴鬲丕亘 禺賵亘蹖 亘賵丿 賵賱蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 亘乇丕蹖 卮乇賵毓 讴丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 賳蹖爻鬲. 蹖賴 賲賯丿丕乇 禺賵亘蹖 賮賱爻賮賴 倬乇丿丕夭蹖鈥屬囏й� 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 賲禺賱賵胤 卮丿賴 亘丕 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 蹖賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 鬲賮讴蹖讴 丕蹖賳 丿賵 爻禺鬲 賲蹖卮賴.
讴鬲丕亘 蹖賴 賲賯丿丕乇 賴賲 爻賳诏蹖賳 賴爻鬲 賵 賴賲賵賳胤賵乇 讴賴 诏賮鬲賲 亘乇丕蹖 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 讴鬲丕亘 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賵賱蹖 丕乇夭卮 禺賵賳丿賳 丿丕乇賴
讴鬲丕亘 蹖賴 賲賯丿丕乇 賴賲 爻賳诏蹖賳 賴爻鬲 賵 賴賲賵賳胤賵乇 讴賴 诏賮鬲賲 亘乇丕蹖 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 讴鬲丕亘 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賵賱蹖 丕乇夭卮 禺賵賳丿賳 丿丕乇賴
February 1, 2022
This is a to be recommended summary of the major tenets of Freud鈥檚 thoughts.
Refreshing to read this balanced account against all the recent Freud bashing.
Yes mistakes were made but Freud gave us some great insights for our journey towards our understanding of our psyche
And this book underlines the primal importance of the free association attitude underlying psychoanalysis
Refreshing to read this balanced account against all the recent Freud bashing.
Yes mistakes were made but Freud gave us some great insights for our journey towards our understanding of our psyche
And this book underlines the primal importance of the free association attitude underlying psychoanalysis
March 23, 2021
禺亘 亘丕蹖丿 亘诏賲 讴賴 卮賲丕 亘丕 蹖賴 讴鬲丕亘 賳爻亘鬲丕賸 爻禺鬲鈥屫堌з� 讴賴 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丨丕賱 亘爻蹖丕乇 跇乇賮 賵 讴丕乇亘乇丿蹖 賴爻鬲 乇賵亘乇賵 賴爻鬲蹖丿. 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 鬲賵囟蹖丨貙 鬲賮爻蹖乇 賵 賲賵卮讴丕賮蹖 丌乇丕亍 賮乇賵蹖丿 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴. 亘賴鬲乇賴 賴乇讴爻蹖 讴賴 亘賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 蹖丕 賲亘丕丨孬 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賲亘丕丨孬 禺賵丿卮賳丕爻蹖! 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 賴爻鬲貙 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 丿乇 丕賵賱賵蹖鬲 亘匕丕乇賴. 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 匕賴賳 卮賲丕 乇賵 丕夭 亘乇禺蹖 亘丿賮賴賲蹖鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賳爻亘鬲 亘賴 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇賴 丌诏丕賴 賵 丕氐賱丕丨 讴賳賴.
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亘賴 賯賵賱 丕爻賱丕賵蹖 跇蹖跇讴
芦丕诏乇 亘賳丕 亘丕卮丿 亘賴 丕蹖賳 倬乇爻卮 倬丕爻禺 丿賴賲 讴賴 丿乇 賲蹖丕賳 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵丕賳 賲毓丕氐乇 趩賴 讴爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 丿乇丌賲丿蹖 亘乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿乇 賲賯丕賲 賮蹖賱爻賵賮 卮丕蹖爻鬲賴鈥屫臂屬� 丕爻鬲貙 丕賳鬲禺丕亘賲 讴爻蹖 賳禺賵丕賴丿 亘賵丿 噩夭 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇禄
賵 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲 丿乇賵丿 亘乇 噩賳丕亘 噩毓賮乇蹖 賵 噩賳丕亘 胤賴賲丕爻亘 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴贁 丿賯蹖賯 賵 毓丕賱蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丕孬乇 賲賴賲 賵 丕乇夭卮賲賳丿蹖.
賳讴鬲賴贁 倬乇丕賴賲蹖鬲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇 賲賵囟毓蹖 讴丕賲賱丕賸 賲毓鬲丿賱 賵 賲賳氐賮丕賳賴 亘賴 丌乇丕亍 賵 丕賮讴丕乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿丕乇賴貙 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳賴 禺亘乇蹖 丕夭 噩丕賳亘丿丕乇蹖鈥屬囏й� 賲亘丕賱睾賴鈥屫①呟屫� 賵 亘蹖鈥屫勠屬� 丕夭 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 賳馗乇蹖丕鬲卮 賴爻鬲 賵 賳賴 禺亘乇蹖 丕夭 爻賵亍诏蹖乇蹖鈥屬囏� 賵 鬲賮爻蹖乇賴丕蹖 睾蹖乇賲賳氐賮丕賳賴 賵 噩丕賴賱丕賳賴!
亘賴 賯賵賱 丕爻賱丕賵蹖 跇蹖跇讴
芦丕诏乇 亘賳丕 亘丕卮丿 亘賴 丕蹖賳 倬乇爻卮 倬丕爻禺 丿賴賲 讴賴 丿乇 賲蹖丕賳 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵丕賳 賲毓丕氐乇 趩賴 讴爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 丿乇丌賲丿蹖 亘乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丿乇 賲賯丕賲 賮蹖賱爻賵賮 卮丕蹖爻鬲賴鈥屫臂屬� 丕爻鬲貙 丕賳鬲禺丕亘賲 讴爻蹖 賳禺賵丕賴丿 亘賵丿 噩夭 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇禄
賵 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲 丿乇賵丿 亘乇 噩賳丕亘 噩毓賮乇蹖 賵 噩賳丕亘 胤賴賲丕爻亘 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴贁 丿賯蹖賯 賵 毓丕賱蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丕孬乇 賲賴賲 賵 丕乇夭卮賲賳丿蹖.
November 19, 2018
This is a philosophical introduction to Freud's views. It's interesting in many ways and Lear is not afraid to critique Freud, but at times the work turns more into an exposition of Lear than a popular philosophical introduction should be. Also, at times he is not harsh enough with Freud. Freud had almost no philosophical background and like all people who start doing philosophy with no real background in it, he makes dreadful first year undergraduate type mistakes. Lear is to patient with this and its clear that Freud's views on religion and morality are so simple minded as to be virtually worthless from a philosophical perspective.
Where Freud is at his most interesting from a philosophical perspective is where he is developing psychological views based on psychology that are philosophically relevant. The wall between psychology and philosophy is barely there if at all and this is where a philosopical introduction is most useful. Fortunately, that covers most of the book.
An additional criticism that I have is that if we take a long clear hard-headed look at Freud, then we have to conclude that he was both a genius and a fucked up dude. Furthermore, he was much more captured by the morays of his time than he ever expected. Lear is bad at understanding this which is essential to understanding Freud. To take the most obvious example of this, Lear discusses at length the case example of Dora primarily in the chapter on Transference. Like Freud, he misses the fact that Dora is essentially being pimped out by her father in order to bang another man's wife. Lear engages in subtle victim blaming here as does Freud. Dora seems the only wholly reasonable one here to me.
Lear is both a psychoanalyst and a philosopher and this is the strength and weakness of the book. He is stilll locked in some of the myths of psychotherapy, such as the therapist can be a neutral objective partner in the therapeutic relationship. IN my opinion, if we think philosophically we see that things are more complicated than that. Also he is clearly a Freudian psychotherapist and his closeness to Freud often blinds him to both the real flaws of Freud and his real achievements. BOth of which are numerous. On the other hand, he reflexively locates Freud where he should be located as a practitioner first and a theorizer second.
Still having said this the book is very good and rich in ideas. My three star rating is harsh and its almost a four star, but I rate harshly and I would only give at most three or four secondary sources in philosophy a five star rating, its the primary sources that get that kind of thing.
Where Freud is at his most interesting from a philosophical perspective is where he is developing psychological views based on psychology that are philosophically relevant. The wall between psychology and philosophy is barely there if at all and this is where a philosopical introduction is most useful. Fortunately, that covers most of the book.
An additional criticism that I have is that if we take a long clear hard-headed look at Freud, then we have to conclude that he was both a genius and a fucked up dude. Furthermore, he was much more captured by the morays of his time than he ever expected. Lear is bad at understanding this which is essential to understanding Freud. To take the most obvious example of this, Lear discusses at length the case example of Dora primarily in the chapter on Transference. Like Freud, he misses the fact that Dora is essentially being pimped out by her father in order to bang another man's wife. Lear engages in subtle victim blaming here as does Freud. Dora seems the only wholly reasonable one here to me.
Lear is both a psychoanalyst and a philosopher and this is the strength and weakness of the book. He is stilll locked in some of the myths of psychotherapy, such as the therapist can be a neutral objective partner in the therapeutic relationship. IN my opinion, if we think philosophically we see that things are more complicated than that. Also he is clearly a Freudian psychotherapist and his closeness to Freud often blinds him to both the real flaws of Freud and his real achievements. BOth of which are numerous. On the other hand, he reflexively locates Freud where he should be located as a practitioner first and a theorizer second.
Still having said this the book is very good and rich in ideas. My three star rating is harsh and its almost a four star, but I rate harshly and I would only give at most three or four secondary sources in philosophy a five star rating, its the primary sources that get that kind of thing.
June 6, 2022
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亘丕蹖丿 鬲賵噩賴 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 賳賯賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屫� 丕賮讴丕乇 诏賵賳丕诏賵賳蹖 亘賴 匕賴賳鬲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫必池� 讴賴 亘賳丕 亘乇 賲賱丕丨馗丕鬲 禺丕氐蹖 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囒屫� 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 讴賳丕乇 亘诏匕丕乇蹖丿. 賵爻賵爻賴 賲蹖鈥屫促堐屫� 亘賴 禺賵丿 亘诏賵蹖蹖丿 讴賴 丕蹖賳 蹖丕 丌賳 賲賵囟賵毓 亘蹖鈥屫必ㄘ� 丕爻鬲貙 蹖丕 丕爻丕爻丕 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 賳丿丕乇丿貙 蹖丕 亘蹖 賲毓賳蹖 丕爻鬲貙 倬爻 賳蹖丕夭蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 诏賮鬲賴 卮賵丿. 賴乇诏夭 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賲賱丕丨馗丕鬲 鬲賳 賳丿賴蹖丿 賵 丨乇賮鬲丕賳 乇丕 亘夭賳蹖丿_丿乇 丨賯蹖賯鬲貙 丿賯蹖賯丕 趩賵賳 丕夭 诏賮鬲賳卮 丕丨爻丕爻 賳丕禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿蹖 丿丕乇蹖丿貙 亘丕蹖丿 丨乇賮鬲丕賳 乇丕 亘夭賳蹖丿. 亘毓丿賴丕 倬蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄘ臂屫� 賵 賲蹖鈥屬佡囐呟屫� 讴賴 趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 蹖诏丕賳賴 賯丕毓丿賴鈥屫й� 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘丕蹖丿 丕夭 丌賳 鬲亘毓蹖鬲 讴賳蹖丿. 倬爻 賴乇趩賴 亘賴 匕賴賳鬲丕賳 禺胤賵乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 亘诏賵蹖蹖丿. 胤賵乇蹖 毓賲賱 讴賳蹖丿 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 賲爻丕賮乇蹖 賴爻鬲蹖丿 賳卮爻鬲賴 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 倬賳噩乇賴贁 賵丕诏賳 賯胤丕乇 賵 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 讴賴 丿乇 亘蹖乇賵賳 賲蹖鈥屭柏必� 亘乇丕蹖 讴爻蹖 讴賴 丿乇賵賳 賵丕诏賳 丕爻鬲 鬲賵氐蹖賮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屫�.
丿乇 丌禺乇貙 賴乇诏夭 賮乇丕賲賵卮 賳讴賳蹖丿 讴賴 賯賵賱 丿丕丿賴鈥屫й屫� 讴丕賲賱丕 氐丕丿賯 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 亘賴 氐乇賮 丌賳讴賴貙 亘賴 賴乇 丿賱蹖賱蹖貙 诏賮鬲賳卮 亘乇丕蹖鬲丕賳 賳丕禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿 丕爻鬲貙 丕夭 賯賱賲 賳蹖丕賳丿丕夭蹖丿. 芦賮乇賵蹖丿禄 丿乇 亘丕亘 賲亘丕賳蹖 賳禺爻鬲 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖.
丿乇 倬賳丕賴 禺賽乇丿.
賳賵卮鬲賴 噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇
鬲乇噩賲賴 賲噩鬲亘蹖 噩毓賮乇蹖 賵 毓賱蹖鈥屫必敦� 胤賴賲丕爻亘
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噩丕賳丕鬲丕賳 賱蹖乇貙 丿丕賳卮 丌賲賵禺鬲賴 賮賱爻賮賴 丕夭 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴 卮蹖讴丕诏賵 丕爻鬲. 丕賵 讴賴 亘賴 诏賮鬲賴 禺賵丿 爻丕賱蹖丕賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 賲卮睾賵賱 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丌孬丕乇 賮乇賵蹖丿 丕爻鬲貙 亘丕 賳诏乇卮蹖 賮賱爻賮蹖 亘賴 賲亘丕賳蹖 賳馗乇蹖 鬲卅賵乇蹖 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賵 亘丕 鬲丕賵蹖賱蹖 賲賳丕爻亘 丕夭 丌乇丕亍 賮乇賵蹖丿貙 賵 亘賴 丿賵乇 丕夭 賯囟丕賵鬲 賴丕蹖 丕乇夭卮蹖 賮乇丿蹖貙 亘賴 賳诏丕乇卮 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲鬲 诏賲丕乇丿賴 賵 丿乇 乇丕爻鬲丕蹖 賵蹖乇丕爻鬲蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丿蹖亘丕趩賴 丕蹖 賳蹖夭 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳賳丿诏丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 夭亘丕賳 賳诏丕卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲.
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丿乇 丌禺乇貙 賴乇诏夭 賮乇丕賲賵卮 賳讴賳蹖丿 讴賴 賯賵賱 丿丕丿賴鈥屫й屫� 讴丕賲賱丕 氐丕丿賯 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 亘賴 氐乇賮 丌賳讴賴貙 亘賴 賴乇 丿賱蹖賱蹖貙 诏賮鬲賳卮 亘乇丕蹖鬲丕賳 賳丕禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿 丕爻鬲貙 丕夭 賯賱賲 賳蹖丕賳丿丕夭蹖丿. 芦賮乇賵蹖丿禄 丿乇 亘丕亘 賲亘丕賳蹖 賳禺爻鬲 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖.
丿乇 倬賳丕賴 禺賽乇丿.
December 30, 2019
2019 Review: I read this again (twice) recently without realising that I had previously read and reviewed it six years ago! Quite a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then (!) and my views on the book are a bit different. I still think it is a readable and interesting introduction to Freud and I like the fact that Lear is ready to disagree with Freud and the fact that he has his own perspective does make the book interesting. But, despite his evident self-confidence, his thinking strikes me as rather superficial, lacking in either philosophical or psychoanalytic rigour. He seems to have a rationalistic view of consciousness (despite the fact that he is writing a book on Freud!) and then because he is so rationalistic he gets very caught up with the idea that the mind disrupts itself. He has a strange Davidson-influenced approach to understanding human agency but for all his preoccupation with teleology does not seem to notice that he regularly attributes agency to processes (e.g the mind disrupts itself plus lots of vaguely Darwinian talk of things "being selected"). He thinks and hopes that psychoanalysis can fulfil (what he sees as) the Greek project of providing a grounding for an ethically virtuous life, but the idea that a "robust moral psychology" could play this role is deluded. So interesting in that he is prepared to strike off on his own paths, but the paths don't really lead anyway and at best provide material for unravelling.
2013 Review: This is a very readable and interesting introduction to Freud (and to psychoanalysis). It looks at Freud from a philosophical point of view and makes many interesting links particularly to Socrates and Plato. I did occasionally feel that it was seeking to be popular in a negative sense and the author certainly has the confidence to present clear views and make clear judgements, some of which did strike me as being a bit quick or superficial. However, there are many interesting perspective and a good balance between sympathy and agreement with Freud and the attempt to stand back a bit and assess his work. Three stars is perhaps a bit harsh, but as an ex-philosopher my expectations of philosophers are a bit high. I also think that seeing Freud's work through Plato's eyes is rather more worthwhile and interesting than adding Davidsonian insights to psychoanalytic perspectives (but that is probably mainly a reflection on me rather than on this book!).
2013 Review: This is a very readable and interesting introduction to Freud (and to psychoanalysis). It looks at Freud from a philosophical point of view and makes many interesting links particularly to Socrates and Plato. I did occasionally feel that it was seeking to be popular in a negative sense and the author certainly has the confidence to present clear views and make clear judgements, some of which did strike me as being a bit quick or superficial. However, there are many interesting perspective and a good balance between sympathy and agreement with Freud and the attempt to stand back a bit and assess his work. Three stars is perhaps a bit harsh, but as an ex-philosopher my expectations of philosophers are a bit high. I also think that seeing Freud's work through Plato's eyes is rather more worthwhile and interesting than adding Davidsonian insights to psychoanalytic perspectives (but that is probably mainly a reflection on me rather than on this book!).
December 2, 2023
Overall a good review of Freud for those unfamiliar with his works. A little oversimplifying at times, and attempted to give something of a Platonist reading of Freud. I quite liked Lear's description and defense of the Oedipus complex as an abstract model describing the formative and ambiguous emotional conflicts a child has with its parents in its early years of life, as well as his use of a 'level of generality' for how to apply Freud's theories of the Oedipus complex and of religion/society. I would recommend this to anyone new to Freud and interested in the basics of psychoanalysis.
June 29, 2019
An extremely gripping and philosophically compelling exposition of Freud鈥檚 major psychoanalytic theories.
September 15, 2021
The most striking choice in this book is its title. There is no biography of Freud because Freud is a "philosophical" introduction, which is to say it's an ideography. Removing the man from the equation has its benefits. Lear's ability to unroll the structure of Freud's thinking so to, if not vindicate, make less ridiculous, ideas like the Oedipus Complex is admirable. Even more admirable is his willingness to sort ideas by utility. And by blending psychoanalysis into his Aristotelian commitments to virtue ethics, he transforms Freudian ideas into a fundamental tenet of being - 鈥渉umanity鈥s not a biological given, but an ethical task鈥� and this humanity can be achieved through the "conversation that...can structure the psyche" that is Psychoanalysis.
Of course an obvious problem appears when you tie anyone's "humanity" (an essentialist & definitionally anthropocentric concept) to an "ethical task," especially when your subject is the theories of a bourgeois doctor whose career was built on the neuroses of the well-to-do. This is not made any better by Lear following this up by warning that there are "currents alive in [our] culture that so valorize comfortable lives." Quite a statement from a tenured philosophy professor at a college whose community area, Hyde Park, is both and segregated.
There are intragroup debates about certain ideas Lear espouses like defining the unconscious as a non-conceptual structure that attacks thinking in itself (e.g. anxiety as a childhood adaptation to prevent thinking about such-and-such) as opposed to a kind of brain's brain with its own rationality (inspired by Wilfred Bion per , but idk). And Peter Gay Lear's choice to exclude history. Despite Lear's tethering of Freud to Nietzsche, Gay says, Freud is far better understood as influenced by Plato if only because he was a Viennese elite with all the cultural preoccupations and biases of one. Ignoring this contingency allows Lear to elide Freud's "seriously questioned notions about female psychology."
But while a lack of historical depth and professional disagreements are fine, I do feel they miss that the book is working to show how, "from the perspective of the philosophical tradition," "self-consciousness constitutes as the creatures we are" and that "psychoanalysis is located at the core of our humanity, for it really only enjoins one activity: to allow self-consciousness to unfold spontaneously of its own accord." My concern with Freud is Lear's pairing a radical Nietzschean social critique and an Aristotelian pursuit of "rational animality." If the foundation of psychoanalysis is the harnessing of the unconsciousness' impulse for creative repetition "at the level of self-conscious awareness," and the one activity our humanity enjoins is "allowing" self-consciousness to "unfold," it's unclear to me where the kinds of radical agency found in Nietzsche fit in. What is the relationship between civilization and its discontents?
Which is the irony of Lear's most striking choice in this book. Lear dismisses Freud's metaphysics, but the shape of his dismissal reminds us of the block that Freud stumbled into elitist cynicism on. In the same vein I think of Byung-Chul Han's that tries to do the opposite, claiming Freud's concepts are outdated, having been replaced by a transparency-obsessed burnout society full of "achievement-subjects." Instead of a society whose outcasts are banished by structures of power (homo sacer), it's a society whose incasts are banished by their commitment to that structure (homo liber). Think . I think Lear and Han are optimistic and trying to move beyond Freud. They think we lived in that demarcated space, and I think we live in history.
Of course an obvious problem appears when you tie anyone's "humanity" (an essentialist & definitionally anthropocentric concept) to an "ethical task," especially when your subject is the theories of a bourgeois doctor whose career was built on the neuroses of the well-to-do. This is not made any better by Lear following this up by warning that there are "currents alive in [our] culture that so valorize comfortable lives." Quite a statement from a tenured philosophy professor at a college whose community area, Hyde Park, is both and segregated.
There are intragroup debates about certain ideas Lear espouses like defining the unconscious as a non-conceptual structure that attacks thinking in itself (e.g. anxiety as a childhood adaptation to prevent thinking about such-and-such) as opposed to a kind of brain's brain with its own rationality (inspired by Wilfred Bion per , but idk). And Peter Gay Lear's choice to exclude history. Despite Lear's tethering of Freud to Nietzsche, Gay says, Freud is far better understood as influenced by Plato if only because he was a Viennese elite with all the cultural preoccupations and biases of one. Ignoring this contingency allows Lear to elide Freud's "seriously questioned notions about female psychology."
But while a lack of historical depth and professional disagreements are fine, I do feel they miss that the book is working to show how, "from the perspective of the philosophical tradition," "self-consciousness constitutes as the creatures we are" and that "psychoanalysis is located at the core of our humanity, for it really only enjoins one activity: to allow self-consciousness to unfold spontaneously of its own accord." My concern with Freud is Lear's pairing a radical Nietzschean social critique and an Aristotelian pursuit of "rational animality." If the foundation of psychoanalysis is the harnessing of the unconsciousness' impulse for creative repetition "at the level of self-conscious awareness," and the one activity our humanity enjoins is "allowing" self-consciousness to "unfold," it's unclear to me where the kinds of radical agency found in Nietzsche fit in. What is the relationship between civilization and its discontents?
Which is the irony of Lear's most striking choice in this book. Lear dismisses Freud's metaphysics, but the shape of his dismissal reminds us of the block that Freud stumbled into elitist cynicism on. In the same vein I think of Byung-Chul Han's that tries to do the opposite, claiming Freud's concepts are outdated, having been replaced by a transparency-obsessed burnout society full of "achievement-subjects." Instead of a society whose outcasts are banished by structures of power (homo sacer), it's a society whose incasts are banished by their commitment to that structure (homo liber). Think . I think Lear and Han are optimistic and trying to move beyond Freud. They think we lived in that demarcated space, and I think we live in history.
December 8, 2020
The two-star rating may imply this is a worse book than it is. Lear's philosophical introduction to Freud is a passable attempt at habituating Freud into philosophy. It also provides a potentially valuable supplement to some of Freud's key writings.
There were two problems for me. Firstly, the book spent too long on the areas of Freud's thought that I'm personally less interested in. Lear then seems to write off Freud's attempts to expand the purview of psychoanalysis to civilization as a whole as a regrettable exercise.
Secondly, I just was not convinced by Lear's attempts to read Freud as an unintentional philosopher. The book as a whole did nothing to warm me to psychoanalysis. The whole thing just seems rife with conjecture and unsubstantiated claims, hiding behind a sheen of empiricism. I'm curious about many of psychoanalysis' claims. It's infuriating how bad they are at making them.
Lear is possibly more conscientious than Freud himself on this count. He's quite critical of Freud's more wild conjectures. He also makes an attempt to strike out towards something more philosophically concrete. I just wasn't much persuaded by much of it.
My conclusion is that there's not a huge amount to be gained in terms of the social from lingering too long on Freud himself. Perhaps best to skip directly onto those European thinkers who synthesised his ideas into stronger social theory in the second half of the 20th century.
There were two problems for me. Firstly, the book spent too long on the areas of Freud's thought that I'm personally less interested in. Lear then seems to write off Freud's attempts to expand the purview of psychoanalysis to civilization as a whole as a regrettable exercise.
Secondly, I just was not convinced by Lear's attempts to read Freud as an unintentional philosopher. The book as a whole did nothing to warm me to psychoanalysis. The whole thing just seems rife with conjecture and unsubstantiated claims, hiding behind a sheen of empiricism. I'm curious about many of psychoanalysis' claims. It's infuriating how bad they are at making them.
Lear is possibly more conscientious than Freud himself on this count. He's quite critical of Freud's more wild conjectures. He also makes an attempt to strike out towards something more philosophically concrete. I just wasn't much persuaded by much of it.
My conclusion is that there's not a huge amount to be gained in terms of the social from lingering too long on Freud himself. Perhaps best to skip directly onto those European thinkers who synthesised his ideas into stronger social theory in the second half of the 20th century.
October 10, 2021
Great reference point to retrace the developments of thinking about therapy and the human condition. I will be even more thankfull to have read it when going through essays wrote by Freud himself.
It is not directly a biography, rather the book is a philosophers view of what Freud thought: Analysed asking the question why Freud might have believed what he did. In that sense it is a work of intellectual history rather than a work of what is conventionally seen as analytical philosophy where what matters the most is the truth value of Freuds assertions. That is not to say that Lear ignores the more contradictory elements of Freuds thought - In fact he often triples down on them using Freuds concepts to show Freuds errors which is quite fun.
It is not directly a biography, rather the book is a philosophers view of what Freud thought: Analysed asking the question why Freud might have believed what he did. In that sense it is a work of intellectual history rather than a work of what is conventionally seen as analytical philosophy where what matters the most is the truth value of Freuds assertions. That is not to say that Lear ignores the more contradictory elements of Freuds thought - In fact he often triples down on them using Freuds concepts to show Freuds errors which is quite fun.
September 29, 2022
Lucid and straightforward intro to Freuds basic concepts and themes, although it might be somewhat simplified and not in depth enough. Love how Lear ties Freud's theoretical categories into clinical reality and more significantly ethical considerations. My major problem would be his last chapter on Freud's critique of morality and religion. His critique of Freud's critique is okay, but not how he asserts too much of himself and shifts the problem onto HIS problem rather than Freud's.
February 4, 2024
Insightful exploration of Freud's contributions to human thought. At times a bit dry as the approach is of an analytic philosophical nature, but for the most part doesn't get too bogged down in arguments. I disagree with some of Lear's analysis of later Freud's thought, but appreciate that he felt bold enough to disagree in good faith.
Listened to the audiobook and it was excellently performed. The accent for quotations of Freud was always entertaining.
Listened to the audiobook and it was excellently performed. The accent for quotations of Freud was always entertaining.
January 7, 2021
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March 23, 2022
A clear introduction to Freud's work. My one complaint is that Lear freely editorializes throughout, letting us know whenever he thinks Freud has something wrong. His commentary is thoughtful, but it's not what Freud thought. I guess I have to go straight to the source for that.
October 20, 2019
A very brief but core introduction to idea set of freud, and its place in western philosophy
March 15, 2020
Great introduction to Freud's basic ideas.
January 19, 2021
This is a really fantastic introduction to freud! I do have some quibbles with the text though, specifically the way that Freud has a very gendered system, but Leer elides this.
July 30, 2021
A great Aristotelian reading of Freud.
December 16, 2021
Incredibly compelling portrayal of Freud, plugging him into the Aristotelian tradition. In a way, Lear salvages Freud for me and makes me want to revisit psychoanalysis in more depth.
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