Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind

by Patricia Kitcher

Book Overview

By examining the rise and fall of psychoanalysis, Freud's Dream provides an extended case study of the appeal and potential dangers of the interdisciplinary approach to theory construction now guiding cognitive science as well as a novel interpretation of Freud's own programme. Kitcher argues that Freud's grand scheme for psychoanalysis was nothing less than a blueprint for a complete interdisciplinary science of mind, that many of its strengths and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262111721
• ISBN13: 9780262111720
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.