Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger.
Title:
Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger.
Author:
Carel, Havi.
ISBN:
9789401201407
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 6 ; v.v. 6
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 6
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: The Metaphysics of the Death Drive -- One: Freud's Drive Theory -- What is a Drive? -- Drive, Not Instinct! -- Two: The Development of the Death Drive -- The Initial Formulation of the Death Drive -- Conflict vs. Intertwining -- The Death Drive as Psychic Principle -- The Death Drive as the Source of Aggression -- Aggression as a Fundamental Phenomenon -- Three: Collapse of the Dualistic View -- Does the Death Drive Have Explanatory Value? -- The Clash of Aggression and the Nirvana Principle -- Are the Life and Death Drives Distinguishable? -- A New Reading of the Death Drive -- Summary of Part I -- PART II: Give to Each His Own Death -- Four: Being towards Death -- Death as Structuring Existence -- Elucidating Heidegger's Concept of Death -- Death and Moods -- Temporality, Historicality, Repetition -- Five: Towards a Relational Understanding of Death -- Mitsein and Das Man -- Authenticity and Inauthenticity -- Implications for the Death Analysis -- Summary of Part II -- PART III: Encounters between Freud and Heidegger -- Six: Death Structuring Existence -- Death is Central to Understanding Existence -- Death's Presence in Life -- Repetition -- Seven: The Ethics of Death -- The Ethical Dimension of the Death Drive -- The Ethics of Authenticity -- The Call of Conscience and the Superego -- Eight: Death of Another -- The Mitsein Analysis: Problems and Suggestions -- Internal Reconstruction of an Authentic Attitude to the Death of Another -- External Reconstruction of an Authentic Attitude to the Death of Another -- Nine: Death and Moods -- Disclosive Moods -- Love Intimating Mortality -- Ten: Death and the Unconscious -- "As If It Were Immortal" -- Is Death the Unconscious of Inauthentic Dasein? -- Is Covering Up a Form of Repression? -- There is an Unconscious Awareness of Death.
Summary of Part III -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger argues that mortality is a fundamental structuring element in human life. The ordinary view of life and death regards them as dichotomous and separate. This book explains why this view is unsatisfactory and presents a new model of the relationship between life and death that sees them as interlinked. Using Heidegger's concept of being towards death and Freud's notion of the death drive, it demonstrates the extensive influence death has on everyday life and gives an account of its structural and existential significance. By bringing the two perspectives together, this book presents a reading of death that establishes its significance for life, creates a meeting point for philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives, and examines the problems and strengths of each. It then puts forth a unified view, based on the strengths of each position and overcoming the problems of each. Finally, it works out the ethical consequences of this view. This volume is of interest for philosophers, mental health practitioners and those working in the field of death studies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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