Synopses & Reviews
Andrew Cutrofello's book performs a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, taking Kant's synthetic a prior judgments and reading them in terms of a foreclosed Kantian category--that of the analytic a posteriori. Working primarily out of Freudian and Lacanian problematics, Cutrofello not only subjects Kantian thought to psychoanalytic questioning, but also develops a systematic critique of metapsychology itself, disclosing and assessing its own paralogisms, antinomies, ideal, and ethics. This is a provocative reflection on the tensions between the Enlightenment project of critique and psychoanalytic theory.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162) and index.
About the Author
Andrew Cutrofello is associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Discipline and Critique: Kant, Poststructuralism, and the Problem of Resistance and The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: An Inverse Kantianism
2. Aesthetics of Neurosis
3. Logics of Perversion
4. Principles of Discourse
5. Paralogisms of Narcissism
6. Antinomies of Schizophrenia
7. Ideals of Paranoia
8. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Works Cited
Index