Neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and memory -- The anxious animal -- Keeping time : remembering, repeating, and working through -- Triangulation : the social character of thought -- On judgment -- Self-reflections -- Irrationality and self-transcendance -- Freedom and understanding -- Valuing emotions -- Self-knowledge and self-discovery
Summary
Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in an investigation of human subjectivity. She describes the ideal of a subject as an agent doing things for reasons and able to assume responsibility for itself. The book investigates what might stand in the way of this
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-178) and index
