Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher
Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never…
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Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher
Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge.
Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and misrepresenting his true achievement. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization.
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