When Freud first published his theory of the unconscious mind, it was ridiculed by many for being a logically indefensible revision to older foundational theories of subconsciousness. A war zone opened between opponents and defenders of the Freudian concept, and the traditional …
"The language of the fantastic left its mark upon many different thinkers in 19th-century Europe. Marx's comparison of consumer goods to fetish objects, works by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam or other novelists about machines that assume lives of their own, or the diagnoses of psychol…
Introduction -- The metaphysics of metapsychology -- The biological foundations of personality : drives and affects -- Repression and the metapsychology of defence -- The metapsychology of the unconscious -- The metapsychology of the self -- The metapsychology of object relation…
