Unconscious Without Freud

When Freud first published his theory of the unconscious mind, it was ridiculed by many for being a logically indefensible revision to older foundational theories of subconsciousness. A war zone opened between opponents and defenders of the Freudian concept, and the traditional theory was forgotten. In The Unconscious without Freud, Rosemarie Sand argues that a return to this original theory could contribute to a cessation of hostilities and lead to the peaceful development of a theory of the unconscious-one that is free from the stigma that is currently attached to Freudian theory.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Leibniz and the Unconscious
Chapter 2. Psychodynamics
Chapter 3. The Light and the Dark in the Mind
Chapter 4. The Power of Dark Ideas
Chapter 5. The Leibnizian Brain
Chapter 6. Free Association
Chapter 7. The Cartesian Unconscious
Chapter 8. The Demonic Unconscious
Chapter 9. The Romantic Imagination
Chapter 10. Schopenhauer: The Ego and the Id
Chapter 11. Hartmann: the Blockbuster
Chapter 12. The Ghost in the Freudian Mansion
Chapter 13. The Psychic Mechanism
Chapter 14. The Herbartian Legacy
References
About the Author

About the author

Rosemarie Sand has been a psychoanalyst for twenty-five years. She is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Her works include Early Nineteenth Century Anticipation of Freudian Theory, Confirmation in the Dora Case, Pre-Freudian Discovery of Dream Meaning: the Achievements of Charcot, Janet, and Krafft-Ebing, On a Contribution to a Future Scientific Study of Dream Interpretation, and Freud and the Western Dream Tradition. She specializes in antecedents to Freudian theory.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemarie Sand, Rosemarie Sponner Sand
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2013
• EAN: 9781442231733
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3173-3
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Dialog-on-Freud; Dialog-on-Freud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Freud;Psychoanalysis;unconscious