Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The tyranny of desire

by Tamas Pataki

Book Overview

Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myth, and religious illusions. The concept's theoretical exploration has been largely neglected within psychoanalysis since, but contemporary philosophers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138637513
• ISBN13: 9781138637511
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"