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Klappentext In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein! Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality! what must the mind be like for it to be irrational! to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness! and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions! he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind'! in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic explanation by exhibiting its continuity with everyday psychology. Zusammenfassung Reconstructing the theories of Freud and Klein! Sebastian Gardner argues that psychoanalytic theory explains the nature of irrationality! and is an extension of everyday psychological explanation. He advances a view of the unconscious as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I: Dividing Persons: 1. Ordinary irrationality; 2. Persons in parts; 3. Persons and sub-systems; Part II: Psychoanalytic Concepts: 4. Unconscious motives and Freudian concepts; 5. Wish; 6. Phantasy and Kleinian explanation; Part III: Psychoanalytic Conception of Mind: 7. Metapsychology and psychoanalytic personality; 8. Consciousness, theory and epistemology; Appendices; Notes; Works of Freud cited; Bibliography; Index.
