The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

ISSN: 0106-2301 (Print) 1600-0803 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rspr20

Freud's philosophical path

Alfred I. Tauber

To cite this article: Alfred I. Tauber (2009) Freud's philosophical path, The Scandinavian
Psychoanalytic Review, 32:1, 32-43, DOI: 10.1080/01062301.2009.10592639

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2009.10592639

Published online: 21 Jan 2013.

Submit your article to this journal

Article views: 67

View related articles

Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rspr20

Download by: [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] Date: 12 February 2016, At: 17:31
 Scand. Psychoanal. Rev. ( 2009) 32, 32-43 Copyright © 2009
---THE---
SCANDINAVIAN
PSYCHOANALYTIC
REVIEW
/SSN 0106-2301

Freud's philosophical path

From a science of mind to a philosophy of human being

Alfred I. Tauber
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

Despite an early interest, Freud explicitly rejected philosophy, because of its

"speculative" character. He struggled with balancing the intellectual appeal
of philosophy with the certainty he hoped to find in positivist science. Putting
aside the scientific status of Freud's work, the author re-examines Freud's
attitude towards philosophy. Failing to recognize the assumptions of his inves-
tigations, Freud segregated psychoanalysis from philosophy on the charge that
philosophers equated mind with consciousness, putatively propounded unfounded
speculations, and assumedfalse conclusions about comprehensiveness. However,
Freud never completely abandoned his initial philosophical proclivities. His own
contributions to cultural history, social philosophy, notions of personal identity,
and the humanistic thrust of psychoanalysis, demonstrate that he continued to
address his earliest interests in philosophical questions. The author elucidates
the philosophical complexity of psychoanalysis and concludes that a reconsid-
eration of Freud's self-appraisal of his intellectual commitments is warranted

Key words: philosophy - Freud's education - Brentano -positivism - Freud's

humanism

At the University of Vienna, Freud divided his early tion of human behavior Uustifying the empiricism) and
studies between philosophy and preparation for a medi- a novel humanistic understanding about social theory,
cal career. He knew the basic outline of the German cultural history, and personal identity. However, the
philosophical tradition as taught in the 1870s, and we explicit description of his philosophical ideas remains
have some evidence that he continued to entertain the moot in Freud's published writings, for in the express
relation of his thought to Kant and to other philoso- rejection of formal philosophy, he eschewed significant
phers; but he also took pains to convince himself and self-reflection on his intellectual commitments. Yet on
his readers that he was not doing philosophy. In pursu- several occasions, Freud privately admitted that, in
ing his science, Freud regarded psychoanalysis as an his retreat from philosophy, he never completely aban-
alternative to then current philosophies of mind, and doned the musings of his youth.
despite his later speculations about the ways that his Freud expended a fair amount of intellectual (and
findings might be applied to culture and history, his psychic) energy in defining himself as an empirical
aloof position never altered. scientist at the expense of a competing, seemingly
We most clearly witness this tension between empiri- repressed intellectual passion, and that this subordi-
cal science and a philosophy of human nature roughly nated desire to philosophize re-emerged upon writing
from World War I onwards, when he felt confident that Totem and Taboo (1913) and the meta-psychological
the foundations of psychoanalysis were secure. Freud's papers of the same period, which were then further
outlook combined two elements, a biological concep- developed in the 1920s and 1930s with speculations
 directed far beyond the individual on the couch to the development of Freudian psychoanalysis (Barclay,
society-at-large. Why he extrapolated his clinical the- 1959, 1964; Fancher, 1977; McGrath, 1986; Frampton,
ory to cultural criticism has prompted much discus- 1991; Cohen, 1998a; b; 2000). Accordingly, I surmise
sion (e.g., that it reflected a crisis centered on Jewish that Brentano's mentorship offered both part of the
identity (Paul, 1996) or the conflict with Jung (Breger, original framework in which Freud organized his own
2000)), but suffice it to summarize my claim here: empirical studies, and furthermore presented Freud
I broadly regard this development as representing with a set of criteria by which to justify a theory of
the expression of a frustrated philosopher. On this unconsciousness. Furthermore, Brentano, as a pio-
view, the psychoanalytic approach to human behav- neering phenomenologist, became an apostle of "inner
ior devised by Freud in many ways represented a perception," which Freud later was to take in his own
backdoor entry into the speculative problems that distinctive course. And most generally, Freud's sub-
originally intrigued him as a university student. In sequent detour into neurology arose, at least in part,
adopting this position, I employ a lesson from the in the agreement with his philosophical mentor that
master himself: "An important element in the theory philosophy was "in absolute chaos" (Freud, 1990, p.
of repression is the view that repression is not an 102).
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

event that occurs once but that it requires a permanent Ernst Briicke, a major proponent of materialism,
expenditure [of energy]" Freud (1926, p. 157). more likely directly influenced Freud's interests in
models of the mind, which were based on a phys-
iology grounded in physics and chemistry. Indeed,
FREUD'S POSITIVIST ALLEGIANCE Freud chose to side with the more certain, objectiv-
ist approach Briicke offered (Glymour, 1991 ). This
At the University of Vienna during the mid-1870s, early competition between philosophy and physiology
Freud was deeply interested in philosophy and con- would be replayed in later years as Freud struggled
sidered fulfilling a dual doctorate in medicine and between the demands of a reductive science and an
philosophy. He supplemented his physiology courses introspection that taxed the limits of that science.
with an intense series of lectures delivered by Franz Although he disavowed affiliation to Kantianism,
Brentano, whose commitments to empiricism, logic (Freud, 1990; Smith, 1999), Brentano actually dis-
and natural scientific ideals influenced Freud's later tanced himself more specifically from Hegelianism.
approach to psychology (Freud, 1990). Having entered In his rejection of "Absolute idealism," he created an
the university in 1873 (finishing his medical studies introspective phenomenology in service to a scientific
1881), Freud enrolled in six of Brentano's lecture psychology, which was then prominently developed by
courses from the winter of 1874 through the summer Edmund Husser!. Historicism, neo-Kantianism, and
of 1876. These were the only non-medical courses he analytical philosophy were also to become prominent
took (Merlan, 1949). Of note, he visited Brentano alternatives to a rejected idealism. This latter move-
outside of class and it seems that some intellectual ment, with an ascendant naturalism, would give birth
intimacies were shared (Freud 1990). to logical positivism, also referred to as the "Vienna
Brentano, during the time of encounters with Freud Circle". This complex history may be seen as a general
in 1874, had just been appointed Professor and had re-alignment of philosophy and science, an adjust-
published his major work Psychology from an empiri- ment that underpinned much that became evident in
cal point of view (Brentano, 1973). Whether Freud phenomenology, historicism, value theory, and logic.
actually discussed with Brentano the basis for accept- However, for our purposes, the most direct develop-
ing or rejecting the notion of "the unconscious" or ment for Freud's philosophical undertaking was the
"unconsciousness" as a property of the mind cannot evolution of natural philosophy into "science."
be determined, but the impressionable student reports Scientists, by the end of the 19th century, found
to his friend, Eduard Silberstein, that Brentano dispar- themselves pursuing a course independent of their
aged Johann Friedrich Herbart's views on the uncon- philosophy colleagues, one that increasingly accorded
scious as "untenable" (Freud, 1990, p. 102). Brentano's science the role of adjudicating truth claims and estab-
Psychology makes a considerable effort of attacking lishing knowledge (Schnadelbach, 1984; Tauber, 2009).
the notion of an unconscious. As noted, some schol- Science thus attained a position that, when coupled
ars (and I agree) have concluded that Freud's formal with the drive of increasing technology and the growing
studies with Brentano developed into a more personal institutional and social power of its professionaliza-
relationship that made a significant impression on the tion, established an assertive, normative character to
student's understanding of philosophy and influenced research and its products (Tauber, 2001). Originating

33
 with August Comte in the 1820s, extended by Ernst Some are simply descriptive with no judgments as to
Mach in the 1890s, and finally matured in the Vienna optimal or sub-optimal states. Such theories, which
Circle in the 1920s, positivism dominated the philoso- characterize the natural sciences, for example, Newto-
phy of science during the first half of the 201h cen- nian mechanics or general relativity, are value-neutral
tury and thus set the standards for truth claims during and thus non-normative. Of course, they are not value-
Freud's professional life. free. They are judged and governed by their own hier-
Freud's embrace of scientism and positivism fol- archy of values: objectivity, universality, coherence,
lowed the fashion of his time. By the end of the 19th parsimony, aesthetical elegance, simplicity, etc. Other
century, the natural sciences, left to their own technical kinds of theories embed different social or personal
pursuits, ascended to great heights of technical mas- values in their descriptive structure, which are derived
tery of nature. That success required an epistemology, from human experience and accordingly account for
which seemingly built from commonsensical notions conditions on a normative spectrum of values. Psy-
of empirical knowledge, and by successfully respond- choanalysis as a therapeutic venture is guided by vari-
ing, positivist philosophy assumed its hegemonic hold ous notions of normativity. This orientation focused
on the scientific community. When Freud entered the Freud's investigational model, namely, an extrapolation
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

scientific community, investigators began to refer to from functional coordinates that seemed to allow life
themselves as "scientists" instead of to "natural phi- to flourish. Accordingly, his positivist aspirations for
losophers" (following William Whewell's suggestion psychoanalysis floundered, as his critics relentlessly
for a new designation in his Philosophy of the induc- opined. Freud could not ignore those attacks, but did
tive sciences (1840)). Positivist triumphs led to roman- he effectively repel them?
tic reactions {Tauber, 2001), which took many forms,
but suffice it to note here that a disenchanted universe
posed the question of human's existential standing in THE CHALLENGE OF
a new way: how to place humans in relation to the NORMATIVE ACCOUNTS
nature they experienced. While the objective compo-
nent of that problem was soon adopted by a new dis- Following an account of human action reaching back
cipline, psychology, the various expressions directed into Enlightenment and Romantic traditions (Kirsch-
at the deeper metaphysical challenge soon dominated ner, 1996; Steiner, 1995;), analytic stories frame indi-
discussion of the signification of science's findings. In vidual life histories to achieve certain ends. Indeed, a
other words, with "objectivity" given, the unresolved teleological structure of psychoanalytic theory clearly
problem became subjectivity. oriented Freud's epistemology, directed his investiga-
Those scientists who embraced this newly evolved tions, and defined his interpretation of the clinical data
positivist philosophy were, by and large, pleased to (Meissner, 2003). Arising from physiology, function fol-
leave the problematic philosophical (defined as "meta- lows parameters of success and failure for prescribed
physical") questions behind them as they pursued their goals, and with these basic coordinates, Freud placed
investigative projects. Freud chose to align himself with psychic life on a clinical spectrum defined by relatively
them, not only because of the appeal to methodologi- normal and pathological states. This endeavor rested
cal authority, but perhaps more deeply as a personal on clinical judgment and application of norms that
response to the crisis of modernity generally experi- organized an understanding of psychic function and
enced at the turn of the 20th century (Megill, 1985). the psychotherapy directed at correcting its aberrancies.
To seek new foundations and save rationality in the Freud's positivist project, built on the ideals of the
face of crushing obstacles comprised an intellectual physical sciences, breaks apart on these normative
mission dominant among the German intelligentsia shoals (Tauber, 2005, 2009), for the neat division of
(Bambach, 1995). Thus, positivism, which seeks radi- objective facts and subjective values only admits the
cally neu_tral and objective knowledge (frequently omit- separation of certain kinds of facts from certain kinds
ting to account for its own values and self-refuting of value. The interpretative nature of psychoanaly-
assumptions), organized Freud's ever-present desire to sis disallowed such a simple prescription, although
legitimize psychoanalysis by linking its theories and the formally, Freud held to his earliest scientific ideal to
clinical data upon which they were based with those separate objectivity from personal value. A positivist
sciences that he thought had achieved a kind of objec- philosophy that had served a newly emerged scientific
tivity he admired. medicine so well was not only inappropriate for psy-
Freud's "physics envy" belied his scientific aspira- choanalysis, its aspirations were unattainable as well.
tions. Scientific theories generally fall into two camps. Even allowing for the broadest tenets as holding some

34
 universal value - the general nature of unconscious Relevant to this point, in 1925, Freud penned "The
drives and the determinism of early experience - these resistances to psycho-analysis", in which he forgives
basic assumptions can only frame (in a most general physicians (encumbered with their mechanical, mate-
way) the interpretation of the particularities of human rialist orientation) for misconstruing the authority of
experience. The analysis must be heavily influenced by psychoanalysis. However, to the philosophers he offers
non-objective values, namely the goals established by no respite. He accuses them of narrowly perceiving
analysand and analyst, the data admitted for inter- "mind" only in its conscious functions and thus failing
pretation, and of course, the interpretation itself. On to recognize that "what is mental is in itself unconscious
this view, in psychoanalytic clinical practice, as in any and that being conscious is only a quality, which may
clinical scenario (Tauber, 2005), the observer must or may not accrue to a particular mental act ... " (Freud
adjust the brackets of objectivity to fit the peculiari- 1925b, p. 216, emphasis in the original). Further, Freud
ties of the subject. asserts that because philosophers have no experience
Yet, Freud never abandoned his scientific criteria with hypnosis or dream analysis, they are locked into
and guiding ideals. In a late overview of psychoanaly- self-observation and thus to consciousness. Freud then
sis, he wrote, "The future will probably attribute far notes that psychoanalysis resides in some middle posi-
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

greater importance to psychoanalysis as the science tion between medicine and philosophy, deriving no
of the unconscious than as a therapeutic procedure" benefits from any kinship with either discipline.
(1927b, p. 265). Thus, for the late Freud, the thera-
peutic result was construed as a fortunate product of
a successful analysis, but the scientific status of the FREUD'S REJECTION OF PHILOSOPHY
analysis remained primary. Note, however, that the
verisimilitude of the analytic process was predicated on Throughout Freud's early and late writings, psycho-
Freud's early therapeutic successes, so one might easily analysis seemingly had no Weltanschauung beyond
argue that the medical aspects were critical to assign- that of empirical science itself (cf., e.g., Freud, 1933),
ing truth claims for his interpretations. Irrespective of which embraced positivist tenets. This philosophical
these considerations, Freud in the end eschewed the structure largely defined the development and presen-
therapeutic as subordinate to the scientific inquiry, or tation of his "new science." Complicating the objective
in other words, science trumped medicine, because in pose assumed by the psychoanalyst are the various
the final analysis, medicine offered an inferior theoreti- emotional demands encountered during an analysis;
cal application of his positivist ideals. the aspiration to objectify the subjective proved to
Positivism's appeal explains Freud's presentation be a daunting challenge. Nevertheless, Freud hoped
of psychoanalysis and aspects of its methodologies. to distance himself from the analysand to the extent
But Freud did not engage directly with the inherent that allowed a scrupulous assessment, and in so doing,
philosophical tension (between normative and non- he wore the mantle of a clinical scientist seeking an
normative aspects) of his science. Indeed, he could not objective description of psychic events and behav-
escape how an evaluative judgment- an interpretative ior. Consider Freud's own description of the analyst's
analysis, a formulation of a standard of behavior - objective attitude:
reflected a set of non-positivist values applied to create
a psychoanalytic interpretation. Putting aside further I cannot advise my colleagues too urgently to
comment on the positivist standing of Freud's theory, I model themselves during psycho-analytic treat-
only note that instead of dealing with the philosophical ment on the surgeon, who puts aside all his feel-
commitments of psychoanalysis, Freud instead polemi- ings, even his human sympathy, and concentrates
his mental forces on the single aim of performing
cally took his argument against a weaker opponent, the the operation as skillfully as possible .... The jus-
"philosophers." The general tenor of Freud's remarks tification for requiring this emotional coldness
about philosophy attempted to rebut the criticism that in the analyst is that it creates the most advanta-
psychoanalysis offered little clinical evidence or scien- geous conditions for both parties: for the doctor
tific rationale for its practice and thus fashioned itself, the desirable protection for his own emotional
willy-nilly, as a contemplative discipline. Specifically, life and for the patient the largest amount of help
Freud complained that philosophers (whom he does that we can give him today (Freud, 1912, p. 115).
not identify, but they must have included Brentano)
equated the mental with consciousness and ignored the Having adopted this orientation, Freud maintained
unconscious, which for the psychoanalyst represents that psychoanalysis offered a positivist basis for under-
the true seat of the mind (Freud, 1900). standing complex human behaviors and institutions,

35
 thereby distinguishing itself from previous speculative it with religion and with what was already a widely
philosophies. He donned the scientific cloak even when rejected Hegelianism; he avoided exploring the logic
proselytizing. Of several disavowals, this one, from his of his own approach and its presumptive claim on true
Autobiography, succinctly states his case: knowledge; and finally, he seemingly ignored the meta-
physical foundations of his own efforts to devise an
I should not like to create an impression that dur- encompassing philosophy of human nature. Neverthe-
ing this last period of my work I have turned my less, Freud employed specific philosophical positions
back upon patient observation and have aban-
for his own theoretical purposes, and these philosophi-
doned myself entirely to speculation. I have on
the contrary always remained in the closest touch cal elements form the underpinnings of his thought,
with the analytic material and have never ceased both scientific and humanistic (Tauber, 2010, in press).
working at detailed points of clinical or technical Freud's understanding of what constitutes knowl-
importance. Even when I have moved away from edge is readily understood, given his research training
observation, I have carefully avoided any contact and the context of his clinical investigations. Neverthe-
with philosophy proper. This avoidance has been less, his intellectual journey reveals a duality of per-
greatly facilitated by constitutional incapacity
spectives, which complicates his ambitions. This dual
(Freud, 1925a, p. 59).
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

allegiance to science and a more speculative inclination

directed towards culture criticism, religion, and histo-
But more than some "incapacity" for philosophical ry is clearly demonstrated in his correspondence with
thinking, Freud held decidedly negative views of phi- Fliess, where he reported to his friend the schema of the
losophy. As late as in his New Introductory Lectures "Project for a scientific psychology" ("Draft K" of the
of 1933, Freud sounded his repeated refrain about correspondence). There, he revealed his commitment
the intellectual weaknesses of "philosophers" and the to neurophysiology as classically conceived. Although
strength of his own empirical epistemology: he called the project a "Christmas fairy tale" (Freud,
1985, p. 162), Freud postulated a physiological model
Philosophy is not opposed to science, it behaves of the mind and therein grounded psychopathological
like a science and works in part by the same depiction of the neuroses. The tentative postulates of
methods; it departs from it, however, by cling-
this attempt represent a schema that would be followed
ing to the illusion of being able to present a pic-
ture of the universe which is without gaps and is throughout Freud's later development of psychoanaly-
coherent, though one which is bound to collapse sis, a schema of energetics borrowed from physics (Gly-
with every fresh advance of our knowledge. It mour, 1991 ). According to this model, the mind was "to
goes astray in its method of over-estimating the take its place among the inhabitants of the 'billiard-ball'
epistemological value of our logical operations universe of Newtonian mechanics" (Mcintyre, 1958, p.
and by accepting other sources of knowledge 17). How various aspects of Freudian theory reflected
such as intuition (Freud, 1933, pp. 160-161).
the general scientific culture and attitudes of his intel-
lectual milieu have been well described (Kitcher, 1992;
Thus, Freud's rejection of philosophy rested upon his Decker, 1977), and more specifically, this notion of psy-
diagnosis of three weaknesses: (1) philosophy repre- chic forces defining complex behavior conveys the gen-
sents an encompassing mode of knowledge (or perhaps eral tenor of Freud's scientific thinking: from the earli-
a metaphysics) that cannot respond to new empiri- est speculations and throughout his mature period, he
cal findings; (2) beyond its blindness to empiricism, remained passionately committed to a scientific model
philosophy's logic is closed and limited; and (3) phi- that would mirror physics, the paragon of the natural
losophers elevate non-scientific forms of knowledge sciences. But as he presents this physiological model to
to an epistemological level that is rightly reserved for his confidant, he draws back and admits that despite
positivist findings. This indictment of "philosophy" the allure of this scientific hypothesis, it truly remains
originated in the rejection of a lingering influence of in service to another calling altogether, one I would call
idealism, whose "speculative" and "totalizing" proclivi- philosophy. So, while his original intent had been a phil-
ties Freud replaced with the positivist promises of the osophical characterization of the mind, Freud himself
research laboratory. admitted, in order to achieve this goal he detoured first
That Freud's characterization distorted "philoso- into neurophysiology and then into psychiatry. His af-
phy" requires little comment here, other than to note fectionate reference to philosophy in his letter to Fliess
the irony that he accepted his own positivism without (Freud,l985, pp. 159, 180; quotations given below) be-
the same critical appraisal that he applied to other phi- lies the many instances in Freud's published writings,
losophies. He caricatured philosophy by associating where he firmly established a distance between himself

36
 and philosophers and, more specifically, between psy- (Freud, 1933, p. 160). Freud's diagnosis of philosophy's
choanalysis and prevailing philosophies of mind. How fatal weakness was "over-estimating the epistemologi-
might we account for this division? cal value of our logical operations and by accepting
Throughout his writings Freud sprinkled remarks other sources of knowledge such as intuition." (Freud,
directed to those detractors, who claimed that psycho- 1933, p.160). Let us call this position, Freud's public
analysis failed the scientific standards of the age. He scientific persona, and below we will trace the broader
thus had to establish that psychoanalysis was objective intellectual origins of his theory in greater detail and
(i.e., scientific in following a most austere objectivist show how a larger philosophical challenge underlies
truth doctrine) and that it was not "philosophical." his psychoanalytic project.
Considering his background in neurophysiology and
his commitments to the ascendant positivism of the
age, Freud's flirtation with a reductive model served an FREUD'S RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY
important orienting function for what was to become
an altogether different approach to understanding psy- Much of Freud's defense of his theory draws a distinc-
chopathology. In this view, Freud struggled throughout tion between the "science" of psychoanalysis and the
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

his career to bridge the gap between his aspiration to "speculation" of philosophers. This position, however,
create a science of the mind, on the one hand, and to belies the complexity of the philosophical influences
promote an interpretative method serving to reveal on psychoanalytic theory and largely ignores that psy-
a broader philosophy of human being, on the other choanalysis depends on the antecedents of previous
hand. He believed that adherence to positivist prin- characterizations of unconsciousness, for example,
ciples would not only bolster the truth claims of his those by Schopenhauer, Eduard von Hartmann, and
psychoanalytic extrapolations, but would also align Nietzsche (Askay & Farquhar, 2006). Other philo-
this "new science" with the hope that all knowledge sophical antecedents are evident as well (Tauber, in
might be unified under the single banner of science. press), but these are not our concern here. Instead, we
And science for Freud, equated with truth: seek to understand how to place Freud's speculative
writings in the context of his aversion to philosophy.
It is not permissible to declare that science is one Let us first consider the autobiographical "Postscript,"
field of human mental activity and that religion in which Freud amends his earlier self-appraisal to
and philosophy are others, at least equal in value,
acknowledge that he had returned, "after making a
and that science has no business to interfere with
the other two: that they all have equal claim to lifelong detour through the natural sciences, medicine,
be true and that everyone is at liberty to choose and psychotherapy ... to the cultural problems which
from which he will draw his convictions and in had fascinated me long before, when I was a youth
which he will place his belief. A view of this kind scarcely old enough for thinking" (Freud, 1935, p. 72).
is regarded as particularly superior, tolerant, Culture criticism is not philosophy, and Freud certainly
broad-minded and free from liberal prejudices. was not a systematic philosopher, but that slippage
Unfortunately it is not tenable .... It is simply
does not release him from the appeals of philosophy,
a fact that the truth cannot be tolerant, that
it admits no compromises or limitations, that which continued to tug at him throughout his life.
research regards every sphere of human activity Even before Freud published Interpretation of
as belonging to it and that it must be relentlessly dreams, he noted his complex relationship to philos-
critical if any other power tries to take over any ophy. In a letter written to Wilhelm Fliess on New
part of it (Freud, 1933, p. 160). Year's Day, 1896, Freud admits to a powerful philo-
sophical inclination:
This statement summarizes Freud's philosophical bed-
rock: truth is only scientific truth and thus intolerant I see how, via the detour of medical practice, you
of other truth claims. He rails against those he iden- are reaching your first ideal of understanding
tifies as pluralistic in their pursuit of truths derived human beings as a physiologist, just as I most
secretly nourish the hope of arriving, via these
by different methods, and he condemns philosophy as
same paths, at my initial goal of philosophy. For
arrogant in its systematic conceits: philosophy might that is what I wanted originally, when it was not
"behave like a science, and works in part by the same yet at all clear to me to what end I was in the
methods," but it is inferior because of "the illusion of world (Freud, 1985, p. 159).
being able to present a picture of the universe which
is without gaps and is coherent, though one which is He repeated this sentiment a few months later: "As a
bound to collapse with every advance in knowledge" young man I knew no longing other than for philo-

37
 sophical knowledge, and now I am about to fulfill it a psychoanalytic career, and instead he advised a very
as I move from medicine to psychology. I became a broad education in the humanities and social sciences.
therapist against my will" (Freud, 1985, p. 180 [April When commenting on his own career, Freud wrote:
2, 1896]). The extent Freud held to his earliest desires,
of course, cannot be resolved; however, one might After forty-one years of medical activity, my self-
fairly conclude that he went through several stages of knowledge tells me that I have never really been
speculation, widening his horizon to broader cultural a doctor in the proper sense. I became a doctor
through being compelled to deviate from my
and historical interpretations. From this perspective,
original purpose.... I have no knowledge of hav-
Freud's dismissive "against my will" would be skepti- ing had any craving in my childhood to succour
cally interpreted by a shrewd analyst. suffering humanity. My innate sadistic disposi-
Later, Freud became less defensive when he admit- tion was not a very strong one, so that I had no
ted that "in the works of my later years ... I have given need to develop this one of its derivatives. Nor
free rein to the inclination, which I kept down so long, did I ever play the "doctor game"; my infantile
to speculation ... "(Freud, 1925a, p. 57). I wish to draw curiosity evidently chose other paths ... I scarcely
think, however, that my lack of genuine medi-
a distinction between Freud's use of "speculation" in
cal temperament has done much damage to my
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

formal psychoanalytic works, such as Beyond the plea- patients. For it is not greatly to the advantage of
sure principle (1920) and The Ego and the Id (1923), patients if their physician's therapeutic interest
and the kind of speculation he employed in more gen- has too marked an emotional emphasis. They
eral cultural or historical writings such as The future are best helped if he carries out his task coolly
of an illusion ( 1927b), Civilization and its discontents and, so far as possible, with precision (Freud,
( 1930), and Moses and monotheism (1939). In these lat- 1927a, pp. 208-209).
ter works, Freud gave free rein to broad psycho-cultural
critiques, each of which is highly speculative. Indeed, Putting aside the issue of the clinical character of
in his late career, he even more freely admitted to such Freud's endeavor for now, consider the basic dichotomy
proclivities, and called his theoretical revisions after his he identified in the text just quoted: physician versus
division of the mental personality into ego, super-ego, scientist. And for him scientist meant psychologist.
and id, a "regressive development" (1935, p. 72). "Physician," on the other hand, held Freud to a thera-
Despite his earlier disdain for such explorations and peutic mission, one he obviously accepted, but that
for the unorthodoxy of his scientific program, Freud's clinical context did not fully fit his aims.
indignation about the dismissal of his theory appears As he writes further in this essay, the neurotic serves
again and again as he sought to defend the critical, that the science of psychoanalysis, because as in clinical
is, scientific character of psychoanalysis (Freud, 1940). medicine, the pathological more clearly defines the
In 1901 he had already written that after all, "(we] ven- workings of the normal. Indeed, for Freud, psychopa-
ture ... to transform metaphysics into metapsychology" thology was a tool for deciphering the normal mind.
(p. 259; see Draenos, 1982). Given the conviction that Obviously his efforts also included a therapeutic out-
he had so conclusively demonstrated the basic structure come, and the audience he addressed was putatively
and dynamics that characterize human thought and committed to psychotherapy, but the point Freud
action, his frustration at the resistance to his ideas is made, an admission of a deeply personal nature is
self-evident. that his own self-image and, more to the point, the
During the later self-contemplative phase of his life, true character of psychoanalysis, did not fall within
Freud wrote a short essay, "Post-script to a discussion the clinical domain so much as within a scientific one.
on lay analysis," where he commented on the relation- In some sense, his remark might be understood as an
ship between medicine and psychoanalysis as funda- implicit admission that psychotherapy was not coin-
mentally divided by the separate concerns of "scientific cident with psychoanalysis. For him, the therapeutic
analysis and its applications" (l927a, p. 213, emphasis result was construed as a byproduct of the analysis,
in the original). He acknowledged how clinical chal- and the analysis - its scientific status - was primary:
lenges grounded the psychoanalytic encounter, but he
regarded psychoanalysis as a branch of psychology, not Psychoanalysis falls under the head of psychol-
medicine, and he was concerned that "the therapy, i.e., ogy; not of medical psychology in the old sense,
nor of the psychology of morbid processes, but
the medical dimension) not destroy the science" (ibid.
simply of psychology. It is certainly not the
p. 209). Among the various issues that brought this whole of psychology, but its substructure and
relationship to his attention, he commented that the perhaps even its entire foundation. The possibil-
medical school hardly offered a suitable training for

38
 ity of its application to medical purposes must naturalism- naturalistic explanations governed by nat-
not lead us astray (Freud, 1927a, p. 252). uralistic cause; the other massive foundation of Freud's
thought rests on freedom of the will, where reason's
So what did Freud mean by "psychology" and, more autonomy allows the rational ego to examine and then
generally, "science?" I have already cited Freud's own master the unconscious drives. Freud (1923) held that
admissions about early interests, motivations, and per- psychoanalysis "does not set out to make pathologi-
sistent allegiances to philosophy; albeit, he remained cal reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego
reluctantly aligned with the latter. And now I am high- freedom to decide one way or the other" (p. 50; empha-
lighting his self-proclaimed identification with psychol- sis in original). Thus, because psychoanalysis depends
ogy, a human science, but a science nevertheless. (Note, on reasoned analysis, which demands some version of
that identification was the last of several shifting iden- self-governing reason, Freud consequently held on to
tifications. For example, during the earlier Project-era two fundamentally opposed metaphysical positions -
of the mid-1890s, Freud dismissed psychology for what humans are determined, and humans are free- and
he hoped was a more promising physiology (Decker, because of their divergent vectors, Freud, like Kant,
1977, pp. 67-68). How are these designations recon- split the mind's faculties into two contrasting domains
ciled? Perhaps Freud understood science, particularly (Tauber, in press).
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

in relation to philosophy, in ways less apparent than the Kant conceived of reason as "pure" and "practical"
simple dichotomy he used in his writings. Science, after in order to save metaphysics and, more immediately,
all, had only recently emerged from natural philosophy moral autonomy and its product, moral responsibility.
as a distinctive activity, and more saliently, even among Freud similarly allowed for divided psychic faculties
those who continued to identify as philosophers, some to account for his interpretative method and to fulfill
did so as champions of science. I believe the key to humane therapeutic goals. After all, his concerns were
unlocking what appears as a frozen opposition may not philosophical in a first order way (which hardly
be in Freud's earliest training with Brentano, where diminishes his debts to philosophy or, conversely,
philosophy- in its best sense- was taught as aspiring his influences on contemporary thought). In seek-
to a scientific ideal. However, that model failed him as ing means to liberate the neurotic through reasoned
he sought a broader characterization of human nature inquiry, Freud was a champion of human freedom,
and its social dimensions reflected in human creativity. which he directed towards fulfilling creative human
In his mature writings, Freud took the basic precepts potential. For this cause, he proceeded not as a phi-
of psychoanalytic theory, applied them to the prob- losopher, but as a humane clinician. Accordingly, his
lems of society and human development, and thus vet- interests are better understood as directed by an over-
ted his earliest interests. In this sense, Freud pursued arching humanism. I am using humanism not only in
"philosophy" - a philosophy forged as a clinician and the cultural sense within which we identify Freud's
employed as a cultural theorist. Accordingly, Freud political identity, urbane wit, and classical knowledge,
applied his principal lesson to himself: the child is the but also in the sense of how humanism offers an ethi-
father of the man. cal point of view in which humans, residing in a secu-
lar world, might determine their own meanings and
judge their own actions in service to a self-determined
FREUD THE HUMANIST life. In this view, psychoanalysis becomes a means for
the achievment of a state of health that permits the
Because the argument between Freud and "the philoso- pursuit of a life fulfilled.
phers" he attacked resulted from a challenge originating To achieve these goals, Freud, despite acknowl-
in the clinical setting (and thus requiring therapeutic edging the power of unconscious drives, implicitly
options), the psychiatric parameters of Freudianism believed in human reason and the exercise of free
have dominated critical philosophical assessments. In- will in the psychoanalytic process. Indeed, autonomy
deed, much has been written on the efficacy of psy- and self-reliance find their ethical expression in his
choanalysis, which refers to the clinical methods Freud moral commitment to an image of humans as legis-
devised. If the controversy moves to wider philosophi- lators to themselves. He drew this theme from Kant's
cal and more specific humanistic concerns, a different philosophical project (Tauber, in press) and a rich
conceptual framework appears and Freud's enduring endowment of German romanticism (Kirschner, 1996;
contributions become clearer. Ferguson, 1999), a deep appreciation of poets and
Two "tectonic" plates constantly shift positions in dramatists, from Goethe and Schiller to Sophocles
Freud's theory: one, associated with science, commits to and Euripides, and from a firm disavowal of religion.

39
 Each tradition contributed to placing Freud squarely motivations that go into processing the desiderata of
in the humanist tradition, perhaps best described by analytic mining defy reduction to scientific laws and
Giovanni Pico della Mirando Ia in The dignity of man principles. Freud's science took him part way, and
(1486): he, above all, recognized the power of his systematic
thinking and the ordering of mysterious psychic mani-
Thou, like a judge appointed for being honor- festations. But in the end, a synthesis, a processing,
able, art the molder and maker of thyself; thou an education, a recounting, an interpretation brings
mayest sculpt thyself into whatever shape thou
the psychic "data" together into analytic truth. The
dost prefer. Thou canst grow downward into
the lower nature which are brutes. Thou canst emotional truths attained at this juncture serve as the
again grow upward from thy soul's reason into fundamental goal of psychoanalysis, whose therapeu-
the higher natures which are divine (della Miran- tic success might not be certain, but whose centrality
dola, 1965, p. 5). for human being- the inner inquiry itself- remains a
legitimate claim for those so committed.
For Freud, that achievement arrived through self-
knowledge.
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

The humanist message, reiterated in various contexts CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

and with differing meanings, is clearly stated in a re-
markable essay published in 1917, where Freud sought Stepping back from the details of Freud's relationship
to explain the challenge of psychoanalysis and the or- to philosophy, how might we understand the overall
dinary resistance he encountered in its acceptance. For structure of his project? While a short summary can-
Freud, the insights offered by his methods were the not do justice to the subject, certain broad conclusions
third of three critical assaults on humankind's narcis- may be made: Freud melded two apparent disparate
sism: ( 1) displacement from the center of the universe forms of knowledge: a rigorous empiricism tempered
(Copernicus)- a cosmological blow; (2) recognition of by a hermeneutics of the human soul, so that psycho-
human descent from animals (Darwin) - a biological analysis exercises a chimera of rationalities, in which
blow; and (3), most wounding, "the ego is not master two kinds of reason - empiricist and hermeneutic -
in its own house" - a psychological blow (Freud, 1917, complement one another to fulfill distinctive intel-
p. 143; emphasis in original). He summarized psycho- lectual demands. Rather than regarding the synthesis
analytic findings as residing in two cardinal insights: of an objectifying empiricism with a unique herme-
"sexual instincts cannot be wholly tamed" and "mental neutics as some kind of anomaly, I see Freud's sci-
functions are unconscious" (ibid.), and thus the con- ence reaching back to its earliest philosophical roots,
scious mind possesses only incomplete and untrust- before natural philosophy became "science". In that
worthy perceptions. Accordingly, "you behave like an history, where philosophical questions guided early
absolute ruler" with only partial or distorted informa- experimentalists, two motives drove their research:
tion. After this succinct admonishment, Freud declares, the mastery of nature and the metaphysical wonder of
like the philosophers of old, "Turn your eyes inward, placing humans in their natural order (Tauber, 2009).
look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!" Here, at the junction of these outlooks, a moral vision
(ibid., emphasis added). And that is the gist of the en- guided their beholders - a vision of divine order- that
tire psychoanalytic enterprise: thus, while acknowledg- by the end of the secularized 19th century had gen-
ing the rule of the unconscious, Freud argued that the erated another relationship: humans alienated from
rational ego still might free itself from the clutches of nature (Tauber, 2001). The key metaphysical prob-
damaging psychic forces, and at the very least, through lem of that era, one that deeply affected the young
self-awareness, achieve some degree of freedom. Freud (Trosman, 1976) and continued to haunt him,
From this perspective, Freud's credo follows Spi- revolved around the imbroglio of re-enchanting the
noza's judgment: "man's greatest happiness and peace universe, which science had stripped of human value
of mind (acquiescentia animi) comes only from this full (Schiller 1801/1993). The deep influence of Feuer-
philosophical understanding of himself" (Hampshire, bach (Boehlich, 1990) and the struggle with religious
1962, p. 121). Here, the philosophical, psychological, identity Freud countered with a firm atheism, an
and humanistic streams of Freud's thinking converge. appropriation of figures and themes from mythol-
Note, truth cannot be final in any sense. Rather, truth ogy, and a pre-occupation with the ancients (Scully,
is personal understanding, which is more than the 1997; Armstrong, 2005). The disappointment with the
empirical science of psychoanalysis can afford. The speculative philosophies ready-at-hand and the search
self-reflection, assessment, judgment, aspirations and for truth in its most direct expression (positivism)

40
 each reflect dual commitments of Freud's bisected Freud, like the ancient Greek tragedians, presented
Weltanschauung. Eventually, the division was bridged his drama of the human being on a mythic stage. The
once Freud felt his scientific contributions had been metier was "science," but the psychoanalytic "'play"
completed and he felt confident to proceed with the emerged from a creative amalgamation of fact and
greater project, the one antedating his scientific career. fancy, history and memory, and knowledge and imagi-
When Freud applied his findings to problems of nation, which he hoped would capture the key features
war, religion, social structure, and creativity, he sought of human nature as a mythological expression. Analy-
to extend his science into the larger intellectual world sands tell a tragic story: destined to know their past and
that he had abandoned as a young university stu- having lived the fate of their experience, they come, like
dent. The extrapolated science is self-evident in his Oedipus, to understand the true character and deeper
psycho-historical works (1913, 1939), the critique of meanings of that experience. The analysand thus takes
religion (1927b), and various biographical studies. In his place among several actors in his psychic drama,
applying his theory to biography, cultural history, and and while holding some sense of self-identity, he also
complex social dynamics, Freud clearly announced his must recognize that in the recesses of a distant child-
greater ambitions, which originated at a time in his hood, others have impacted and molded him to behave
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

life when he thought philosophy might have afforded defensively in a world where even those who love him
him ways to study those deeply perplexing existential have inflicted trauma and lasting wounds. Unable to
and cultural questions. Although philosophy, at least change the course of one's life, the only recourse resides
as Freud first formally encountered the subject, proved in recognition and reconciliation (Reeder, 2002). The
inadequate to his quest, in turning to science, he began dual message of psychoanalysis thus fulfills the tragic
a long trek that did, indeed, return him to his origi- criteria of self-knowledge, acknowledgement, accep-
nal interests. After all, these cultural-historical works tance, and then transformation. This passage of the
represent the expression of his earliest yearnings to hero marks a rite, a stage of maturation, presented in
comment on the history and culture in which he lived. the language of advanced Western societies and reso-
This was not philosophy, in an orthodox sense; it was nating with the classical origins of our civilization.
an expression of his humanism. While following a clinical scenario, analytic insight
In his late writings, Freud attempted to create no less re-enacts a passage described by the ancients, and in
than a comprehensive framework in which to under- this sense, Freud created a new dramatic form - the
stand human history and culture. While he was roundly dominant myth of the 20th century. I am referring to
criticized for these speculative ventures and indicted the understanding afforded by placing the individual
of practicing a naive scientism, Freud felt fully justi- in the basic narrative of human development.
fied, because he held that psychoanalysis had captured Freud struggled with fitting the scientific mode of
certain universal truths about human nature. Simply, knowing within the broader therapeutic agenda he set
he used the science, which he himself recognized was himself. For him, science did not function solely as
still not fully developed (e.g., Freud 1920), to provide some kind of separate intellectual or technical activity
himself with a philosophical platform upon which to to study the natural world, but rather became an instru-
develop the theory well beyond its original intent. In ment to help define human realities in the humane quest
defending this scientific enterprise, Freud famously of knowing the world in order to place ourselves within
admitted to Einstein, "does not every science come in it. So, despite Freud's commitment to empiricism and
the end to a kind of mythology like this? Cannot the the scientific objectivity he claimed for his method, he
same be said to-day of your Physics?" (Freud, 1932, began and ended his career with responses to perplex-
p. 211). This "codicil" refers to a metaphysical bound- ing questions about the nature of man, the history of
ary, a domain beyond human understanding, which culture, and the place of religion in the face of human-
he believed lies under all human knowledge. In this ity's search for meaning. Further, Freud, like many
sense, Freud thought he had plumbed the depths of of his generation, sought to re-enchant human life, in
the psyche and seen - perhaps, intuited -the dynamics terms responsive to Schiller's earlier indictment, namely
governing behavior, but only to a level that human rea- how to meld hegemonic rationalism with human needs
son permitted. The unique grammar and semantics he and human values. "Instead of helping to deprive the
had devised were only "logical" inventions to describe world of its magic, charm, and poetry, Freud made
that-which-had-no-logic. At this deepest level, Freud our psychic life more poetic - more poetic and more
reached into mythology to express the inexplicable, one rational at the same time" (Kaufmann, 1980, p. 104).
that was in kind no different from the limits of the Freud could not escape the duality he assigned him-
metaphysics supporting contemporary physics. self, and thus what Kaufmann calls the "poetic," and

41
 what I refer to as "humanism," directed Freud's greater REFERENCES
efforts. Supporting testament is offered by Binswanger,
who wrote about a conversation with Freud in 1927: Armstrong, R. H. (2005). A compulsion for antiquity. Freud
and the ancient world. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
I could scarcely believe my ears when I heard him Askay, R. & Farquhar, J. (2006). Apprehending the inacces-
say, 'Yes, the spirit is everything,' even though I sible. Freudian psychoanalysis and existential phenom-
was inclined to surmise that by 'spirit' he meant enology. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
in this case something like intelligence. But then Bambach, C. R. ( 1995). Heidegger. Dilthey, and the crisis of
Freud continued: 'Mankind has always known historicism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
that it possesses spirit; I had to show it that there Barclay, J. ( 1959). Brentano and Freud, a comparative study
are also instincts.' (Binswanger, 1957, p. 81) in the evolution of psychological thought, PhD thesis,
University of Michigan.
- (1964) Franz Brentano and Sigmund Freud. Journal of
While some have made similar observations about Existentialism, 5:1-36.
Bettelheim, B. (1982). Freud and man's soul. London: Pen-
Freud's humanism (e.g., Trosman, 1976; Loewald,
guin Books.
1978; Kaufmann, 1980; Bettelheim, 1982; Goldberg,
Binswanger, L. (1957). Sigmund Freud: Reminiscences of
1988; Brown & Richards, 1999), most of Freud's biog-
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

a friendship, translated by N. Guterman. New York:

raphers, and certainly his critics, have subordinated, Grune and Stratton.
and more often ignored what appears to me the cru- Boehlich, W. ( 1990). Introduction. In: The letters of Sig-
cial component for understanding the overall structure mund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881, translated
of his thought. by Pomerans, A.J., ed.: Boehlich, W. Cambridge: Har-
The scope and breadth of Freud's creation still vard University Press, pp. xiii-xvii.
appears dazzling, because he tapped into the deep- Breger, L. (2000). Freud. Darkness in the midst of vision.
New York: John Wiley & Sons.
est sources of Western identity and re-expressed its
Brentano, F. (1973). Psychology from an empirical stand-
key tenets in terms that we might effectively apply to point, translated by Rancurello, A.C., Terrell, D.B. &
ourselves. His supreme accomplishment thus resides McAlister, L.L. London and New York: Routledge.
in his picture of humans as primitively willed and Originally published 1874.
humane in possessing an acute self-consciousness that Brown, J. & Richards, B. (1999). The humanist Freud.
not only informed them of their "alien" (natural, ani- In: Freud 2000, ed.: Elliott, A. New York: Routledge,
mal) character, but also of the means of attaining self- pp. 235-261.
knowledge and control of their destiny. Freud thus Cohen, A. (1998a). The impact of Franz Brentano's early
intentionality. PhD Thesis, University of Essex.
exemplified the "natural philosopher" in the broadest
- (1998b). Franz Brentano: L'inspirateur philosophique
and most noble tradition: to know nature; to define de Freud. In: Aux sources de Ia psychoanalyse. Une
ourselves within nature; to control nature in order to analyse des premiers ecrits de Freud (1877-1900), ed.:
direct human destiny. To label Freud a scientist in this Geerardyn, F. & Van de Vijvers, G. Paris: Editions
way is to recognize his genius in its most expansive L'Harmattan, pp. 111-122.
expression. - (2000). The origins of Freud's theory of the uncon-
We are heirs to how Freud saw and heard his patients scious: A philosophical link. Psychoanalytische Perspec-
with eyes pierced by skepticism and ears tuned by sus- tieven, 41/42: 109-122.
Decker, H. S. (1977). Freud in Germany: revolution and
picion. He taught that for analysands to see themselves
reaction in science, 1893-1907. New York: International
anew requires fracturing molded figurines and critically Universities Press.
listening to what they say and observing what they do. Della Mirandola, G. P. ( 1965). On the dignity of man and
That is all, but that is enough, because he then turned other works, translated by Wallis, C. G. Indianapolis and
that way of seeing from a dispassionate description to a New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
deeply personal account of human living. Guided by a Draenos, S. ( 1982). Freud's odyssey. Psychoanalysis and the
perfectionist ideal, whereby insight might convert neu- end of metaphysics. New Haven: Yale University Press.
rotic afflictions into productive and happier lives, Freud Fancher, R. E. (1977). Brentano's psychology from an
empirical point of view and Freud's early metapsychol-
expanded the Romantic and Enlightenment hopes for
ogy. Journal of the History of Behavioral Science, 13:
human fulfillment. He did so with a formulation that 207-227.
resonated with much of Western twentieth-century cul- Ferguson, H. (1999). Freud and the dynamics of modernity.
ture and at the same time pushed those despairing ele- In: Freud 2000, ed.: Elliott, A. New York: Routledge,
ments aside to make room for a paradoxical hope in pp. 169-203.
a most unhappy century: humans are determined, yet Frampton, M.F. (1991). Considerations on the role of
free. Philosophers have yet to exhaust that rich mine. Brentano's concept of intentionality in Freud's repu-

42
 diation of the seduction theory. International Review Megill, A. (1985). Prophets of extremity: Nietzsche. Hei-
of Psychoanalysis, 18: 27-36. degger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkeley: University of Cali-
Freud, S. (1900). Interpretation a_( dreams. In: The Standard fornia Press.
Edition of the Complete p~ychological works of Sigmund Meissner, W. W. (2003). The ethical dimension of psycho-
Freud, translated and edited by James Strachey, in col- therapy. A dialogue. Albany: State University of New
laboration with Freud, A., assisted by Strachey, A & York Press.
Tyson, A. London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Merlan, P. (1949). Brentano and Freud - a sequel. Journal
Psychoanalysis, 1953-1974. of the History of Ideas 10: 451.
- (1901). The psychopathology of everyday life. S.E., 6. Paul, R. A. (1996). Moses and civilization: the meaning
- ( 1912). Recommendations to physicians practicing psy- behind Freud's myth. New Haven: Yale University Press.
cho-analysis. S.E,. 12, pp. 111-120. Reeder, J. (2002). Reflecting psychoanalysis. Narrative and
- (1913). Totem and taboo. S.E., 13: 1-161. resolve in the psychoanalytic experience. London: Kar-
- (1917). A difficulty in the path of psychoanalysis. S. E. nac Books.
17:137-144. Schiller, F. ([1801] 1993). Letters on the aesthetic education
- (1920). Beyond the pleasure principle. S.E., 18: 7-64. of man, translated by Wilkinson, E.M. & Willoughby,
- (1923). The Ego and the /d. S.£.,19: 12-59. L.A. In: Essays, Hinderer, W & Dahlstrom, D.O. (eds.).
- (1925a). An autobiographical study. S.E., 20: 7-74. New York: Continuum Publishing, pp. 86-178; originally
Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi] at 17:31 12 February 2016

- (1925b ). Resistances to psychoanalysis. S. E., 19: 213-222. published 180 I.

- (1926). Inhibition, symptom and anxiety. S.E., 20: 87-174. Schnadelbach, H. (1984). Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933.
- (1927a). Postscript to the question of lay analysis. S.E., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20: 251-258. Scully, S. (1997). Freud's antiquities: a view from the couch.
- (1927b). The future of an illusion. S.E., 21: 5-56. Arion 5: 222-233.
- (1930). Civilization and its discontents. S.E., 21: 64-145. Smith, D.L. (1999). Freud's philosophy of the unconscious.
- (1932). Why war? S.E., 21: 203-215. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- (1933). New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis. S.E., Steiner, R. (1995). Hermeneutics or Hermes-mess? Interna-
22. tional Journal of Psychoanalysis, 76: 435-445.
- (1935). An autobiographical study, postscript. S.E., 20, Tauber, A. I. (2001). Henry David Thoreau and the moral
71-74. agency of knowing. Berkeley: University of California
- (1939). Moses and monotheism: three essays. S.E., 23: Press.
7-137. - (2005). Patient autonomy and the ethics of responsibility.
- (1940). An outline of psychoanalysis. S.E., 23: 144-207. Cambridge: The MITPress.
- ( 1985). The complete letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm - (2009). Science and the quest for meaning. Waco, TX:
Fliess /887-1904, translated and edited by Masson, J.M. Baylor University Press.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. - (2010). Freud's dreams of reason: the Kantian structure
- (1990). The letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silber- of psychoanalysis. History of the Human Sciences. in
stein, 1871-1881, translated by Pomerans, A.J. Boehlich, press.
W. (ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Trosman, H. (1976). Freud's cultural background. In: Freud:
Glymour, C. (1991). Freud's androids. In: The Cambridge the fusion of science and humanism. The intellectual his-
companion to Freud, Neu, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cam- tory of psychoanalysis, Gedo, J. & Pollock, G. H. (eds.).
bridge University Press. Psychological Issues IX: 46-70. New York: International
Goldberg, S. E. ( 1988). Two patterns of rationality in Freud's Universities Press.
writings. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Whewell, W. (1840). Philosophy of the inductive sciences
Press. London: J. W. Parker.
Hampshire, S. (1962). Spinoza. London: Penguin Books.
Kaufmann, W. (1980). Freud, Adler and lung. Discovery of Alfred I. Tauber
the mind, vol. 3. New York: McGraw-Hill. Center for Philosophy and History of Science
Kirschner, S. R. ( 1996). The religious and romantic origins of Boston University
psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Kitcher, P. (1992) (ed.). Freud's dream. A complete interdisci- Boston, MA 02215
plinary science of the mind. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
USA
Loewald, H. W. (1978). Psychoanalysis and the history of
the individual. New Haven: Yale University Press.
McGrath, W. J. ( 1986). Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. ait@bu.edu
The politics of hysteria.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press.
Mcintyre, A. C. (1958). The unconscious. Bristol: Thoemmes
Press.

43