Imagining Otherwise

Metapsychology and the Analytic a Posteriori
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1399-2
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Hardback

Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

This work sets out to perform a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, taking Kant's synthetic a priori judgments and reading them in terms of a foreclosed Kantian category, that of the analytic ""a posteriori"". Working primarily out of Freudian and Lacanian problematics, the author not only subjects Kantian thought to psychoanalytic questioning, but also develops a systematic critique of metapsychology itself, disclosing and assessing its own paralogisms, antinomies, ideal, and ethics. In this way, the work provides a reflection on the tensions between the Enlightenment project of critique and psychoanalytic theory.

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