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Chapter 30.Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

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    The Socratic Method | Cooperative Conversation | Contributions to Dynamic Psychological Thinking | Implications of the Conversation With Glaucon | Crisis in Philosophy: Abandonment of the Therapeutic Ideal | Philosophy and Psychic Change | Reflection Function and Psychic Functioning | Conclusion: The Future of Psychoanalytic-Philosophical Investigation | References

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    Psychoanalysis and philosophy share more than an interest in the core concepts of the human condition—freedom, happiness, mental life, desire; they both purport to be strategies for changing one’s life for the better. At least, that’s the way it was at philosophy’s beginning, and it continues on in a Socratic tradition.

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