Consciousness and the Aconscious in Psychoanalytic Theory

In this book, Fayek summarizes current arguments and debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: The Two Faces of a Puzzle
Chapter Two: Two Approaches to the Enigma of Consciousness
Chapter Three: Methodology, Terminology, and the Missed Point
Chapter Four: Freud's "Project" and the Conception of Consciousness
Chapter Five: A Concise of the Theory of the Aconscious
Chapter Six: The Unconscious and the Aconscious
List of References

About the author

Ahmed Fayek was an associate professor of Clinical Psychology in Cairo, Egypt, before immigrating to Canada. His interest in psychoanalysis was a major factor in his immigration to Canada in 1971. He had an accredited training in the Montreal Institute of Psychoanalysis and became a training analyst in 1980. He was Director of Psychology at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, before retiring in 1989. In the last fifteen years before fully retiring, he did some consulting and supervising work in the Middle East and dedicated the rest of the time to writing and publishing.

Summary

In this book, Fayek summarizes current arguments and debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.

Product details

• Authors: Ahmed Fayek, Fayek Ahmed
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2014
• EAN: 9781442242500
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4250-0
• No. of pages: 124
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis