Apprehending the Inaccessible: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Existential Phenomenology

Contents

Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii List of Abbreviations xix Introduction: The Theme of Apprehending the Inaccessible in Western Philosophy 3 Part 1. A Regressive Archaeological Exploration of the Dialectical Synthesis of Freud’s Philosophical Heritage 1 The Atavistic Spirit or “the Monster of Energy”: Origins of Freud’s Synthesizing Mind 13 2 Freud as “Meta-physician”: Freudian Metapsychological Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice 27 3 The Ego as Master in Its Own House: Freud and the Enlightenment 40 4 Unity and Separation: Freud and Greek Philosophy 54 5 Freud’s Romanticistic Overtures: Goethe, Schiller, Schelling 72 6 A Case Study of Freud’s Philosophical Repression: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche 89 7 The Masters of Suspicion: Schopenhauer and Freud on the Inaccessible Nature of Humanity 103 8 Of Philosophers and Madmen: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud on the Unconscious, Freedom, and Determinism 125 Part 2. Freud’s Philosophical Engagement with Husserlian Phenomenology and Existential Phenomenology 9 A Propaedeutic to Freud and the Existential Phenomenologists 155 10 An Intelligible yet Enigmatic Mutual Silence: Freud and Husserl 165 Contents 11 Being versus Id: Heidegger’s Critique of Freud’s Worldview in the Zollikon Seminars 190 12 The Unspoken Dialogue: Heidegger’s Specific Criticisms of Freudian Psychoanalysis 211 13 (“Lack” of) Fathers and Sons: Sartre and Freud 230 14 “The Science That Never Was”: Sartre’s Critique of Freudian Metapsychology 242 15 The Master of Self-Deception: Sartre on Freud 269 16 The Poetic Weight of the Body: Merleau-Ponty’s Reposturing of Freudian Psychoanalysis 289 Part 3. A Rapprochement between Freudian Psychoanalysis and Existential Phenomenology 17 Freud’s Philosophically Split Personality: The Existential Phenomenological Perspective 315 18 Unification of Freudian Psychoanalysis through an Archaeological Methodology 337 Notes 367 Index 445 ...