{"product_id":"open-minded-working-out-the-logic-of-the-soul-9780674455344","title":"Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreud is discredited  so we dont have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders  so we dont have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact  everywhere we look in contemporary culture  knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on that deadening trend  especially as it affects our deepest attempts to understand the human psychein philosophy and psychoanalysis. It explodes the widespread notion that we already know the problems and proper methods in these fields and so no longer need to ask crucial questions about the structure of human subjectivity. What is psychology? Open Minded is not so much an answer to this question as an attempt to understand what is being asked. The inquiry leads Jonathan Lear  a philosopher and psychoanalyst  back to Plato and Aristotle  to Freud and psychoanalysis  and to Wittgenstein. Lear argues that Freud and  more generally  psychoanalysis are the worthy inheritors of the Greek attempt to put our mindedness on display. There are also  he contends  deep affinities running through the works of Freud and Wittgenstein  despite their obvious differences. Both are concerned with how fantasy shapes our self-understanding; both reveal how lifes activities show more than we are able to say. The philosophical tradition has portrayed the mind as more rational than it is  even when trying to account for irrationality. Psychoanalysis shows us the mind as inherently restless  tending to disrupt its own functioning. And empirical psychology  for its part  ignores those aspects of human subjectivity that elude objective description. By triangulating between the Greeks  Freud  and Wittgenstein  Lear helps us recover a sense of what it is to be open-minded in our inquiries into the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651776438325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674455347","price":53.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674455344.jpg?v=1781840445","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/open-minded-working-out-the-logic-of-the-soul-9780674455344","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}