The Thread of Life,9780300079753

The Thread of Life

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ISBN13: 9780300079753
ISBN10: 0300079753
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1999-11-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, Wollheim submits an account of the mind dynamically conceived and proposes that we take as fundamental the process of living as a person. To illuminate this process, the author draws on psychoanalysis and literature, in particular the case studies of Freud and the writings of Proust.

Author Biography

Richard Wollheim is professor-in-residence and chair of the department of philosophy at the University of California.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Living
1(32)
On the Mind
33(29)
Iconicity, Imagination, and Desire
62(35)
Experiential Memory, Introjection, and the Inner World
97(33)
The Tyranny of the Past
130(32)
The Examined Life
162(35)
From Voices to Values: The Growth of the Moral Sense
197(29)
The Overcoming of the Past and Our Concern for the Future
226(31)
Cutting the Thread: Death, Madness, and the Loss of Friendship
257(28)
Name Index 285(2)
Subject Index 287

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