Thread of life
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999
- xv, 288 p. ; 24 cm
- William James lectures ; 1982 .
Includes indexes.
In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, Wollheim submits an account of the mind dynamically conceived and proposes that we take as fundamental the process of living as a person. To illuminate this process, the author draws on psychoanalysis and literature, in particular the case studies of Freud and the writings of Proust.
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Life Psychoanalysis Ethics Mind Behaviourism Consciousness Desire Ego-ideal Death Iconicity Introjection Love Madness Memory Mental states Phenomenology Relational theory Sadism, masochism