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This is a timely and stimulating collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigating its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology.
Marking a clear departure from the long-standing debate over whether Freudian thought is scientific or not, The Analytic Freud expands the framework of philosophical inquiry, demonstrating how fertile and mutually enriching the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis can be.
The essays are divided into four clear sections, addressing the implications of Freud for philosophy of mind, ethics, sexuality and civilisation. The authors discuss the problems psychoanalysis poses for contemporary philosophy as well as what philosophy can learn from Freud's legacy and undeniable influence. For instance, The Analytic Freud discusses the problems presented by pyschoanalytic theories of the mind for the philosophy of language; the issues which current theories of mind and meaning raise for psychoanalytic accounts of emotion, metaphor, the will and self-deception; the question whether psychoanalytic theory is essential in understanding sexuality, love, humour and the tensions which arise out of personal relationships.
The Analytic Freud is a critical and thorough examination of Freudian and post-Freudian theory, adding a welcome and significant dimension to the debate between psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Contributors (p. ix)
• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• Introduction: how right does psychoanalysis have to be? (p. 1)
• Part I Mind (p. 9)
• 1 Psychoanalysis, metaphor and the concept of mind (p. 11)
• 2 How far down does the will go? (p. 36)
• 3 Freudian wish-fulfilment and sub-intentional explanation (p. 49)
• 4 Keeping time: Freud on the temporality of mind (p. 85)
• 5 Subject, object, world: some reflections on the Kleinian origins of the mind (p. 101)
• 6 Freud's Theory of Consciousness (p. 119)
• Part II Ethics (p. 133)
• 7 Aristotelian akrasia, weakness of will and psychoanalytic regression (p. 135)
• 8 Emotional agents (p. 154)
• 9 Moral authenticity and the unconscious (p. 177)
• Part III Sexuality (p. 193)
• 10 Freud on unconscious affects, mourning and the erotic mind (p. 195)
• 11 Love and loss in Freud's Mourning and Melancholia: a rereading (p. 211)
• 12 Lucky in love: love and emotion (p. 231)
• Part IV Civilization (p. 259)
• 13 Sublimation, love and creativity (p. 261)
• 14 Freud and the rule of law: from Totem and Taboo to psychoanalytic jurisprudence (p. 277)
• 15 The joke, the 'as if' and the statement (p. 294)
• Author Index (p. 312)
• Subject Index (p. 316)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jose Brunner is Senior Lecturer at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Marcia Cavell is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
Grant Gillett is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Otago and a practising neurosurgeon
Elizabeth Hegeman is a Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, CUNY, and a practising psychoanalyst
Jim Hopkins is Reader in Philosophy at King's College, London
Marguerite La Caze is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania
Michael P. Levine is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department at the University of Western Australia
Graeme Marshall is Reader and Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
Tamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Jennifer Radden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
Paul Redding is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Sydney
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is the Director of the Program in the History of Ideas at Brandeis University
Nancy Sherman is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a research candidate at the Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis
David Snelling is Lecturer at Birkbeck College
Michael Stocker is the Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Syracuse University
Edmond Wright holds degrees in English and philosophy, and a doctorate in philosophy. He was a one-time Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Study for the Social Sciences, Uppsala