Becoming a subject : reflections in philosophy and psychoanalysis /
By: Cavell, Marcia.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: viii, 182 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0199287082 (alk. paper); 9780199287086:.Subject(s): Philosophy | Psychoanalysis and philosophy | SubjectivityDDC classification: 150.195Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 150.195 CAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0052785 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-178) and index.
Neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and memory -- The anxious animal -- Keeping time : remembering, repeating, and working through -- Triangulation : the social character of thought -- On judgment -- Self-reflections -- Irrationality and self-transcendance -- Freedom and understanding -- Valuing emotions -- Self-knowledge and self-discovery.
Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in an investigation of human subjectivity. She describes the ideal of a subject as an agent doing things for reasons and able to assume responsibility for itself. The book investigates what might stand in the way of this.