TY  - BOOK
AU  - Izenberg,Gerald N.
TI  - The existentialist critique of Freud: the crisis of autonomy 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400869596
AV  - BF173 .E957 1976
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Freud, Sigmund,
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Existential psychology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Preface --; Introduction: The crisis of autonomy --; Chapter one: The positivist foundation of Freud's theory of meaning. Psychoanalysis and medicine; Mechanical explanation; Biological explanation --; Chapter two: The background of the existential critique. Binswanger's first phase; Being and Time --; Chapter three: The existential critique of psychoanalytic theory. The self as thing; Irrationality and the meaning of dreams and symptoms; Past and present: the infantile origin of symptoms; Instinct and meaning; Determinism and freedom; The nature of therapy --; Chapter four: The historical significance of the existential critique --; Chapter five: The existentialist concept of the self. Ludwig Binswanger; Jean-Paul Sartre; Medard Boss --; Chapter six: Authenticity as an ethic and as a concept of health --; Chapter seven: Ideology and social theory in psychoanalysis and existentialism. Three types of alienation; Boss, Heidegger and the technological critique of modernity; Social causation and anxiety in Binswanger; Sartre: the Marxist approach to the existential dilemma --; Bibliography --; Index; 2; b
N2  - Although largely sympathetic to Freud's clinical achievement, the existentialists criticized Freudian metapsychology as inappropriate to a truly humanistic psychology. Gerald Izenberg evaluates the critique of Freud in the work of two existential philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, and two existential psychiatrists, Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss
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