The quality of mind / / Luigi Longhin ; translated from the Italian by Caroline M. McFarlane and Marco Bacciagaluppi.
Society and contemporary culture unquestionably assign much importance to the search for quality. So can this kind of research include the mind? In his analysis, Luigi Longhin examines the causes of mental illness and psychic-mental suffering, the notions of individuality, social violence, and utopi...
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| Superior document: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 13 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- In search of the quality of the mind
- The twentieth century: A century of terror, war, and hate
- The mind also becomes sick: how? when? why? The problem of “normality-anormality”
- Psychic-mental suffering
- Which epistemology for psychoanalysis?
- The objectivist and relativist shift in epistemology: Objectivity and reliability in psychoanalysis
- The three features of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic “laboratory”
- Symbolism and dreams in psychoanalysis
- Kant: investigator of the mind and the first epistemologist
- Charles Taylor: a philosopher who interacts with psychoanalysis in the search for authenticity
- Aesthetic quality and creativity in psychoanalysis: music as a special pathway of the mind
- Ideology and utopia: negative qualities of the mind
- Psychoanalysis and social and political conflicts
- Psychoanalysis and philosophy
- The positive qualities of the mind: happiness and creativity
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index.