TY - GEN T1 - Freud, the reluctant philosopher A1 - Tauber, Alfred I. LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn659584861 AB - Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to r. OP - 318 CN - BF109.F74 T38 2010eb SN - 9781400836925 SN - 1400836921 SN - 1282936530 SN - 9781282936539 SN - 9786612936531 SN - 6612936533 SN - 9780691145518 SN - 0691145512 SN - 9780691145525 SN - 0691145520 KW - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939 : Philosophy. KW - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939. KW - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939 KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy. KW - Philosophy. KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Philosophy KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Psychanalyse et philosophie. KW - Philosophie. KW - Psychanalyse. KW - philosophy. KW - psychoanalysis. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Movements : Psychoanalysis. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : History. KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy KW - dissertations. KW - Academic theses KW - Academic theses. KW - Thèses et écrits académiques. ER -