For Freud, his investigations, like those of Copernicus and those of Darwin, wounded the narcissism of humanity. But the most offensive blow to human self-esteem, he says, is psychoanalysis, waking it from the dream of the "I", to be "master of his own house."
The Freudian revolution is final; The "Freud effect" will not cease and we will not cease to deal with the reactions to the Freudian discoveries, as well as the real meaning of their contributions to the philosophy that we might call contemporary, which seems to have given a "psychoanalytic turn"; One can no longer think philosophically without Freud.
The main objective of the project that originated this volume was to make a tour of the work of the philosophers to whom psychoanalysis allowed them to make a critique of culture, as well as to review the ontological commitments of the Western philosophical tradition....read more
