The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason: What Makes Us Human?...

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Robert Samuels (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason

What Makes Us Human?

Robert Samuels (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

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Routledge
08 May 2023

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); States of consciousness; Psychotherapy

Series: Comparative Psychoanalysis

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.

For thousands of years, thinkers have been trying to define what makes us human. Some of the main questions they have asked is: What is consciousness? Do we have free will? Do animals use language? And what does reason mean? Samuels argues that we need to better understand the psychoanalytic approach to human nature in order to answer these questions, as well as using it to provide a new way of understanding issues such as addiction, political conflict, ideology, and destructive personal relationship.

This book will be of vital interest to psychotherapists, as well as students and researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and psychology.

By: Robert Samuels (UC Santa Barbara USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781032428604
ISBN 10: 1032428600
Series: Comparative Psychoanalysis
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 08 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.