Consciousness and the Unconscious

Originally published in 1984, Consciousness and the Unconscious deals with the concept of ‘the unconscious’ as originally defined by Sigmund Freud, and as subsequently developed, defended and criticized in continental writing at the time. It starts by describing the institutional context in which psychoanalytic theory developed, and the philosophical context which it met, and goes on to discuss Freud’s own understanding of the term ‘unconscious’. This is followed by an account of Sartre’s i...