Freud began university intending to study both medicine and
philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as
metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of
empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his
writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his
original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained
firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated
with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with
his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant
philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical
commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and
misrepresenting his true achievement. Recasting Freud as an
inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of
moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a
rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task
of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western
civilization.
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