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Enacting a conversation between the work of Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, this groundbreaking work presents the fruit of 20 years of research in phenomenology, the history of neurology, psychoanalysis, and metapsychology. It shows how we might think critically about the history of philosophy of mind, mobilizing a pluralistic approach to embodiment, embeddedness in the world, as well as about the relationship between first and third-person standpoints.
List of contents
- Preface
- Part I: Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1: The Relevance of Freud's Project (1895-1896) for Husserlian Phenomenology
- Chapter 2: The Intellectual Context: Herbart, Mach, and Brentano
- Chapter 3: Memory and Inscription: Time Consciousness and its Bodily Correlate
- Chapter 4: The Enigma of the Egos: Husserl's Triune Ego; Freud's Neurological-Psychological Ego
- Chapter 5 : Judgment, Neurological and Phenomenological
- Part II: Performing the Missed Conversation
- Chapter 6: Freud, Husserl in light of Some Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
- Chapter 7 : Thematic Dimensions of the Missed Conversation: Openings and Obstacles
- Chapter 8: The Conversation Staged
- Chapter 9: Phenomenology, Affect, and Its Complex Relationship to the Body
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Bettina Bergo is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. She is the author of
Anxiety: A Philosophical History (OUP 2021), and
Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Jewish Thought (Brill 2025). She is the co-editor of several collections, including
"I don't see color!" Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege (2015),
The Trauma Controversy (2009), and
Levinas and Nietzsche: After the Death of a Certain God (2008). She is also a scholar and translator of Levinas, critical studies in psychoanalysis and the history of psychology, hermeneutics, and Nietzsche's philosophy.
