Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation - Paul.
In this book are revealed Ricoeur the philosopher of language; Ricoeur the critic of Freud; and Ricoeur the theologian of religious symbol. The author is outstanding in all three roles, and the book that emerges is of rare profundity, enormous scope, and complete timeliness. Paul Ricoeur is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris.Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. This book originates in the Terry Lectures given at Yale University in the autumn of 1961. According to the author, this book deals with Freud and not with psychoanalysis. Secondly, this book is one not of psychology but of philosophy.Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage Originating in the Terry lectures at Yale university in the autumn of 1961, this book deals with Freud.
Ricoeur basically takes the Lacanian interpretation of Freud, including the focus on language and the critique of ego psychology and clarifies it. What is really strange about this is that Lacan's name is, for the most part, consigned to a few footnotes.This essay brings into relief a deep, implicit, recapitulative pattern in Ricoeur’s thinking that cuts across this explicit “conceptual asceticism.” Specifically, it highlights this recapitulative pattern in Ricoeur’s treatment of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible; his understanding of utopia and ideology; the functioning of symbols in The Symbolism of Evil and of sublimation in Freud and.
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