The Existentialist Critique of Freud : : The Crisis of Autonomy / / Gerald N. Izenberg.

Although largely sympathetic to Freud's clinical achievement, the existentialists criticized Freudian metapsychology as inappropriate to a truly humanistic psychology. Gerald Izenberg evaluates the critique of Freud in the work of two existential philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1490
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction. The Crisis of Autonomy
  • Chapter One. The Positivist Foundation of Freud's Theory of Meaning
  • Chapter Two. The Background of the Existential Critique
  • Chapter Three. The Existential Critique of Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Chapter Four. The Historical Significance of the Existential Critique
  • Chapter Five. The Existentialist Concept of the Self
  • Chapter Six. Authenticity as an Ethic and as a Concept of Health
  • Chapter Seven. Ideology and Social Theory in Psychoanalysis and Existentialism
  • Bibliography
  • Index