Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, - What Makes Us Human?

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human.

Sommario

1. Introduction 2. Psychoanalyzing Westworld: Beyond Robots and Computers 3. Sam Harris and the Repression of Consciousness and Free Will 4. Is Language an Instinct? 5. Why Your Mind is Not an iPhone? 6. Psychoanalysis Beyond Machines and Animals 7. Jordan Peterson and Right-Wing Biological Determinism 8. Conclusion: Why Defining the Human Matters Index

Info autore

Robert Samuels, PhD, holds doctorates in psychology and English, and teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his many books are Freud for the Twenty-First Century, Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump, Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud, Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality, and The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies.

Riassunto

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Samuels, Robert (Uc Santa Barbara Samuels
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032428611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242861-1
• Pagine: 128
• Serie: Comparative Psychoanalysis
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Zoologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicanalisi; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychotherapy, Psychology: states of consciousness, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, States Of Consciousness, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis