Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

by Angus Nicholls

Book Overview

Since Freud's earliest psychoanalytic theorization around the beginning of the twentieth century, the concept of the unconscious has exerted an enormous influence upon psychoanalysis and psychology, and literary, critical and social theory. Yet, prior to Freud, the concept of the unconscious already possessed a complex genealogy in nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature, beginning with the aftermath of Kant's critical philosophy and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189753X
• ISBN13: 9780521897532
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"