Freud, Jonathan Lear
Freud, Jonathan Lear
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Freud

Author: Jonathan Lear

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2019

Synopsis

In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nature of the self and subjectivity, and ethics and religion. He also considers some of the deeper issues and problems Freud engaged with, brilliantly illustrating their philosophical significance: human sexuality, the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of transference. The author's approach emphasizes the philosophical significance of Freud’s fundamental rule – to say whatever comes to mind without censorship or inhibition. This binds psychoanalysis to the philosophical exploration of self-consciousness and truthfulness, as well as opening new paths of inquiry for moral psychology and ethics.The second edition includes a new Introduction and Conclusion. The text is revised throughout, including new sections on psychological structure and object relations and on Freud’s critique of religion and morality.

About Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Radical Hope, Freud, and Wisdom Won from Illness.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 18, 2021

It is a readable introduction to Freud the philosopher, and it is written in a fairly accessible language. It does, however, seem rather superficial at times and never really get to grips with the aspects of Freud’s work that I find most central to his philosophical position. Interesting in its link......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on January 06, 2020

This book was an answer to my prayers. No no! Not really! I don’t actually do that. But if I did. I would have prayed all last year for a great new book on psychoanalysis. And then this book would have dropped and that would have made it seem like it worked. Anyway. This is a great book. It’s a well wr......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 08, 2021

Lucid and accessible philosophical introduction to Freud that is critical yet sympathetic (my favorite kind of introductions!) Argues, contra Donald Davidson, that the unconscious ought not to be thought of as a "second mind". I am rather new to Freud but I found Lear's argument rather compelling, I......more

Goodreads review by Alina on June 26, 2020

Lear states that his purpose in this book is to give a "philosophical" introduction to Freud's thought. I anticipated that this would involve analyzing Freud's implicit metaphysical assumptions, or connecting his ideas to issues in philosophy of mind, etc. Lear does none of that. This rather feels l......more

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