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By David Edward Rose
In the sector of human motion we think that, for the reason that motion is a actual occasion, it needs to be reducible to the legislation and ideas of technological know-how. consequently, the problematical nature of unfastened will increases its head, because the thought of unfastened will is intrinsically contradictory to one of these reductionist outlook.
This ebook means that the Continental thinkers supply a compelling substitute through focusing on the phenomena of human motion and self-determination with a purpose to supply the reality of freedom in several phrases. therefore Rose deals a revealing research into the proper suggestions and different types of human freedom and action.
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The object of study (the human being) is not described in terms of causes and laws, but is comprehended as acting upon reasons which are either appropriate or inappropriate. Psychoanalysis is perhaps better Freud and Sartre 31 understood as a member of the Geisteswissenschaften – that is, the moral, human or social sciences – rather than the natural sciences. The doctor seeks the meaning of the act rather than the cause of the act, the latter being a key to the former and not vice versa. 4 Existentialist Psychoanalysis Let us remind ourselves and reorder Sartre’s criticisms of the Freudian model: the idea of the censor which filters ideas between the conscious and the pre-conscious is absurd.
His resulting decision was to radically overhaul his explanatory apparatus. Originally, Freud’s musings on psychological disorders had concentrated on showing that the repression of an event in early life is the underlying cause of the symptoms of the patient. For him, mental events are a combination of an idea and energy, but whereas certain ideas were repugnant to consciousness and repressed, the organism still had to channel that energy in order to discharge it. The cure of psychoanalysis resides in the discharging of this energy by revealing (or re-repressing) the traumatic event, but, if this hypothesis were to be consistent with Freud and Sartre 27 his findings, then sexual abuse was almost commonplace among the Austrian middle classes.
I know I am in anguish, that this anguish reveals that I want to negate my possibilities and become a thing which is free. The original project is an elaboration of who we are and a description of the way we know ourselves and deal with our freedom. Freedom is, after all, the futile pursuit of essence, of a negation trying to negate itself. To describe Sartre as a libertarian is misleading because the spontaneous nature of consciousness is not the essence of freedom, but the precondition of choice.