Philosophy and Working-Through the Past: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies

By Jeffrey M Jackson

Philosophy and Working-through the Past defends the relevance to philosophy of the implications of Freud's conception of object loss, especially his provocative discussions of mourning and melancholia. It engages with ongoing debates concerning the relevance of psychoanalysis to social theory, and suggests that emancipation from pathological culture be conceived as a mournful process of working-through the past.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739182846
• ISBN13: 9780739182840
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"