| Literature type | Articles |
| Author | Gardner, Sebastian |
| Title | Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Subtitle | a Historical Reconstruction |
| Title of magazine / anthology | Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society |
| Counting | 86, 1/1 |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 41-60 |
| Mention of Spinoza | s. Kommentar/commentary |
| Language | English |
| Thematic areas | Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Comparison of theories |
| Subject | E |
| Subject (individuals) | Kant, Immanuel |
| Autopsy | no |
| Complete bibliographic evaluation | no |
| German commentary | "In this paper I sketch a reconstruction of the basic psychoanalytic conception of the mind in terms of two historical resources: the conception of the subject developed in post-Kantian idealism, and Spinoza's laws of the affects in Part Three of the Ethics. The former, I suggest, supplies the conceptual basis for the psychoanalytic notion of the unconscious, while the latter defines the type of psychological causality of psychoanalytic explanations. The imperfect fit between these two elements, I claim, is reflected in familiar conceptual difficulties surrounding psychoanalytic theory and explanation." (abstract) |
| English commentary | "In this paper I sketch a reconstruction of the basic psychoanalytic conception of the mind in terms of two historical resources: the conception of the subject developed in post-Kantian idealism, and Spinoza's laws of the affects in Part Three of the Ethics. The former, I suggest, supplies the conceptual basis for the psychoanalytic notion of the unconscious, while the latter defines the type of psychological causality of psychoanalytic explanations. The imperfect fit between these two elements, I claim, is reflected in familiar conceptual difficulties surrounding psychoanalytic theory and explanation." (abstract) |
| Link to this page | http://spinoza.hab.de/detail.php?id=18275&LANG=EN |
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