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 wasnât 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 oneâs own existence, concioussness was viewed as an outlet for unconciouss processes.
- The value of the signifier
- Sturcural linguistics
- Daesin