{"product_id":"becoming-a-subject-reflections-in-philosophy-and-psychoanalysis-0199287090","title":"Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0199287090\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cavell, Marcia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A \"subject\" is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an \"I\", taking in the world from her own subjective perspective; who is an agent, doing things for reasons, sometimes self-reflective, and able to assume responsibility for herself and some of her actions. The idea of a 'subject' points, then, toward an ideal. It asks for the conditions under which a human infant becomes a subject, and for the sorts of things, like self-deception and massive anxiety, that get in the way.What sorts of questions are these? Certainly philosophical. They burrow into central issues in moral philosophy: freedom of the will, the \"self\", self-knowledge, the relations between reason and passion, between autonomy and self-knowledge, issues that form roughly the second half of the book. They lead also into metaphysics and epistemology: Is subjectivity incompatible with objectivity? Are subjects not also objects in the real world? As such, how are they to be treated? Would it be possible, in theory, for a creature to become a subject in the absence of relationships with other subjects? But the questions are also practical. In particular they are at the heart of psychoanalysis both as a theory of the mind, and as a therapy which aims at maximizing the ideals of autonomy and self-knowledge implicit in the very idea of a \"subject\".One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more empirical sort. Cavell brings together for the first time reflections in philosophy, findings in neuroscience, studies in infant development, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical vignettes from her own psychoanalytic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOrders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936504676640,"sku":"NEW0199287090","price":64.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/becoming-a-subject-reflections-in-philosophy-and-psychoanalysis-0199287090","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}