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Can I read Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis on EtoBox?
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis by Sebastian Gardner is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis about?
In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind', in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking e
Who reads Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sebastian Gardner
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521033879
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
