Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

 Content: Introduction: thinking the unconscious / Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher --
 1. The unconscious from the storm and stress to Weimar classicism: the dialectic of time and pleasure / Paul Bishop --
 2. The philosophical significance of Schelling\'s conception of the unconscious / Andrew Bowie --
 3. The scientific unconscious: Goethe\'s post-Kantian epistemology / Angus Nicholls --
 4. The hidden agent of the self: towards an aesthetic theory of the non-conscious in German romanticism / Rüdiger Görner --
 5. The real essence of human beings: Schopenhauer and the unconscious will / Christopher Janaway --
 6. Carl Gustav Carus and the science of the unconscious / Matthew Bell --
 7. Eduard von Hartmann\'s Philosophy of the unconscious / Sebastian Gardner --
 8. Gustav Theodor Fechner and the unconscious / Michael Heidelberger --
 9. Friedrich Nietzsche\'s perspectives on the unconscious / Martin Liebscher --
 10. Freud and nineteenth century philosophical sources on the unconscious / Günter Gödde --
 Epilogue: The \'optional\' unconscious / Sonu Shamdasani.
 Abstract:             
              This volume examines nineteenth-century German theories and representations of the unconscious, and the extent to which they may have influenced Freud.                 Read more...