The Existentialist Critique of Freud: The Crisis of Autonomy

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Existentialist Critique of Freud: The Crisis of Autonomy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gerald N. Izenberg
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePhenomenology and Existentialism
ISBN/Barcode 9780691644134
ClassificationsDewey:150.1952
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 Binswang