Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

A Study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan, and Habermas

By (author) Roger Frie

Hardback - £63.00

Publication date:

17 April 1997

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780847684151

In this wide-ranging study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Roger Frie develops a critical account of recent conceptions of the subject in philosophy and pdychoanalytic theory. Using a line of analysis strongly grounded in the European tradition, Frie examines the complex relationship between the theories of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, language and love in the work of a diverse body of philosophers and psychoanalyists. He provides lucid interpretations of the work of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan, Habermas, Heidegger, Freud and others. Because it integrates perspectives from continental philosophy, analytical philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, this book will appeal to a wide audience in the areas of philosophy, history of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and social theory.
Roger Frie's important new study makes vital links between psychoanalytical, phenomenological, and other philosophical approaches to questions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, as well as bringing the neglected figure of Ludwig Binswanger into contemporary debate. Frie argues impressively against many current orthodoxies, showing that theories, like those of Lacan or Habermas, in which subjectivity is understood in purely linguistic terms, fail to account for some of the most central aspects of self-conscious life.