Tag: Selfhood

‘That difficult thing, the liberal self’

Book Reviews

The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche, by Matt ffytche, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, ix + 310 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 521 76649 4 Reviewev by Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London) C.Burdett@bbk.ac.uk Unusually, this review of Matt ffytche’s book on the origins of the Freudian concept of the unconscious requires a word or two to justify its inclusion in this journal. The Foundation of the Unconscious is not primarily,

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