Irrationality and the philosophy of pychoanalysis
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
- xiv, 303 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconstructing the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner argues that psychoanalytic theory explains the nature of irrationality, and is an extension of everyday psychological explanation. He advances a view of the unconscious as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy.