Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Marcia Cavell
Abstract
This book revolves around the theme that psychological space demands physical space; that the inner world is embedded in, and fabricated from, interactions between world and mind. The following themes in moral philosophy are considered: the nature of the ‘subject’, agency, free will, and self-knowledge. The first three chapters of the book focus on memory, anxiety, and time. The next three chapters are explicitly about the subject, and about first-person, propositional thought. The final chapters articulate the idea that one cannot hive off the subjective aspects of a person from those that ar ... More
This book revolves around the theme that psychological space demands physical space; that the inner world is embedded in, and fabricated from, interactions between world and mind. The following themes in moral philosophy are considered: the nature of the ‘subject’, agency, free will, and self-knowledge. The first three chapters of the book focus on memory, anxiety, and time. The next three chapters are explicitly about the subject, and about first-person, propositional thought. The final chapters articulate the idea that one cannot hive off the subjective aspects of a person from those that are objective.
Keywords:
subject,
self,
psychoanalysis,
first-person,
memory,
anxiety,
time
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199287086 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006 |
DOI:10.1093/0199287082.001.0001 |
