Open Minded : : Working Out the Logic of the Soul / / Jonathan Lear.

Freud is discredited, so we don't have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact, everywhere we look in contemporary culture, knowingness has taken th...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Preface: The King and I
  • 2. On Killing Freud (Again)
  • 3. Knowingness and Abandonment: An Oedipus for Our Time
  • 4. An Interpretation of Transference
  • 5. Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind
  • 6. The Introduction of Eros: Reflections on the Work of Hans Loewald
  • 7. Eros and Unknowing: The Psychoanalytic Significance of Plato's Symposium
  • 8. Testing the Limits: The Place of Tragedy in Aristotle's Ethics
  • 9. Catharsis
  • 10. Inside and outside the Republic
  • 11. Transcendental Anthropology
  • 12. The Disappearing "We"
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index