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Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Cavell, Marcia

Hardcover

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0199287082
ISBN13: 9780199287086
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Apr 27 2006
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A subject is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an I, taking in the world from a subjective perspective; an agent, doing things for reasons, sometimes self-reflective, and able to assume responsibility for herself and some of her actions. If this is an ideal, how does a person become a subject, and what might stand in the way? One of Marcia Cavell's guiding premises is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more empirical sort. Cavell brings together for the first time reflections in philosophy, findings in neuroscience, studies in infant development, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical vignettes from her own psychoanalytic practice.

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