Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; Introduction: why study consciousness?; 1 Consciousness and intellectual work; 2 Towards a metapsychology of consciousness; 3 Figures of speech, from natural discourse to associative discourse; 4 Consciousness and the problem of dualism/ monism; 5 Sleep and consciousness; 6 Consciousness and the unconscious; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary
How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? The author's answer is simply this: because there is no talk regarding the unconscious if not from the standpoint of consciousness. In answering this, we are already, on the one hand, linking consciousness with language and speech, and the author elegantly shows how the figures of discourse teach us a lot about the interface between consciousness and the unconscious
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Translated from the Italian
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