Psychoanalysis Western Philosophy

  • Both try to understand the human condition
  • Philosophical tradition investigates human experience through conciousness whereas psychoanalysis investigates based on the unconciousness
  • Prior to Freud, the uncoonciouness wasn’t discussed much in Western philosophy
  • Metapsychology
  • Psychoanalysis is not concerned with the unversal laws that underly the human experience but the interpretation of human expierience.
  • Rather than conciousnees be evidence of one’s own existence, concioussness was viewed as an outlet for unconciouss processes.
  • The value of the signifier
  • Sturcural linguistics
  • Daesin