Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis

By: Linda Brakel

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Paperback | 28 June 2010

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In Unconscious knowing and other essays in psycho-philosophical analysis. Linda A.W. Brakel tackles a range of fascinating and puzzling phenomena that lie at the border between psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind and action. These include unconscious knowing. vagueness, agency, the placebo effect, and even explanation itself. Unique in its use of tools and concepts from both philosophy and psychoanalysis, the book demonstrates how this interdisciplinary approach can provide unique solutions to some impenetrable problems.

Following the introduction, chapter two on `unconscious knowing' puts forward a radical epistemological view of knowledge and belief, providing evidence from psychoanalytic data and empirical research, including the subliminal method. Chapter three considers philosophical accounts of vagueness in relation to a-rational mentation, finding surprising similarities. Chapter four then develops an original account of agency whilst discovering that a central problem for analysands is quite analogous to an important philosophical problem: namely, when I am concerned with my own survival, just what is the nature of the `me' of concern? In chapter five the mysterious placebo effect is made more understandable in terms of the basic psychoanalytic concepts that are shown to underlie it, and finally chapter six concludes the book with an examination of explanations in general, including those in the preceding chapters.

This is a book that will be of great interest to those within both psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind and action, offering up some compelling explanations for some puzzling phenomena.

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