Saturday, October 25, 2008

Abensour, Alexandre. "The Unconscious and its Images: Ricoeur, Reader of Freud." LA VIE DES IDEES. July 17, 2008.

Ricoeur, Paul. Autour de la Psychanalyse. Vol. 1 of Écrits et conférences. Paris: Seuil, 2008. This book inaugurates the publications of the “Ricœur Collection” whose mission is to place articles and conferences [lectures] of Paul Ricœur, the majority of which have never been published in French, in the hands of readers. Why begin with works on psychoanalysis? In his introduction, Jean-Louis Schlegel shows that the discussion between Ricœur and Freud was constant and cannot be limited to the major work of 1965 (Freud and Philosophy: an Essay on Interpretation) which is certainly one of the most important philosophical interpretations that has been undertaken of the work of the founder of psychoanalysis. In an excellent postface (“Desire, identity, the other: Psychoanalysis in Paul Ricœur’s works after an Essay on Freud”) Vinicio Busacchi clearly explains the scope and steadfastness of the interest that Ricœur had in Freud, that he traces back to his years of Lycée in Rennes where Ricœur had Roland Dalbiez as a professor—the author of the first important philosophical book on Freud (Psychoanalytical Method and the Doctrine of Freud, 1936, in two volumes). . . . Read the rest of the review here: http://www.laviedesidees.fr/The-unconscious-and-its-images.html.

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