Elaborating the fundamental concept of Trieb, or drive, Freud
outlines two basic types of conflict that at once disturb and
organize mental life: the conflict between drives and reality; and
the conflict between the drives themselves (as in amorous Eros
against the aggressive death drive). In Time Driven, Adrian
Johnston identifies a third distinct type of conflict overlooked by
Freud: the conflict embedded within each and every drive. By
bringing this critical type of conflict to light and explaining its
sobering consequences for an understanding of the psyche,
Johnston's book makes an essential theoretical contribution to
Continental philosophy. His work offers a philosophical
interpretation and reassessment of psychoanalysis that places it in
relationship to the larger stream of ideas forming our world and,
at the same time, clarifies its original contribution to our
understanding of the human situation.
Johnston draws on Jacques Lacan's oeuvre in conjunction with
certain philosophical resources-elements from transcendental
philosophy, structuralism, and phenomenology-to rectify the
inconsistencies within the Freudian metapsychological model of
drive. In doing so, he helps to answer a question haunting Freud at
the end of his career: Why is humanity plagued by a perpetual
margin of discontent, despite technological and cultural progress?
In Time Driven, Johnston is able to make sense of Freud's
metapsychology both as a whole and in its historical development of
Lacan's reinterpretation of Freud, and of the place of both Freud
and Lacan in modern philosophy.
General
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy |
| Release date: |
July 2005 |
| First published: |
March 2005 |
| Authors: |
Adrian Johnston
|
| Foreword by: |
Slavoj Zizek
|
| Dimensions: |
154 x 228 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-2205-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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| LSN: |
0-8101-2205-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780810122055 |
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