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Book SynopsisAlthough largely sympathetic to Freud's clinical achievement, the existentialists criticized Freudian metapsychology as inappropriate to a truly humanistic psychology. Gerald Izenberg evaluates the critique of Freud in the work of two existential philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, and two existential psychiatrists, Ludwig Binswang
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Table of Contents, pg. xi*Introduction. The Crisis of Autonomy, pg. 1*Chapter One. The Positivist Foundation of Freud's Theory of Meaning, pg. 13*Chapter Two. The Background of the Existential Critique, pg. 70*Chapter Three. The Existential Critique of Psychoanalytic Theory, pg. 108*Chapter Four. The Historical Significance of the Existential Critique, pg. 166*Chapter Five. The Existentialist Concept of the Self, pg. 218*Chapter Six. Authenticity as an Ethic and as a Concept of Health, pg. 250*Chapter Seven. Ideology and Social Theory in Psychoanalysis and Existentialism, pg. 290*Bibliography, pg. 336*Index, pg. 347
