The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis

by Michel Henry

Book Overview

This book's basic argument is that the Freudian unconscious, far from constituting a radical break with the philosophy of consciousness, is merely the latest exemplar in a heritage of philosophical misunderstanding of the Cartesian Cogito that interprets "I think, therefore I am" as "I represent myself, therefore I am" (in the classic interpretation of Heidegger, one of the targets of this book). According to the author, the certainty of the Cogito...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804733392
• ISBN13: 9780804733397
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"