Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism
by
Alfred I. Tauber
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent...