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This book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud’s implicit argument for unconscious mental states. The author employs the unique approach of applying contemporary philosophical methods, especially Kripke-Putnam essentialism, in analyzing Freud’s argument. The book elaborates how Freud transformed the intentionality theory of his Cartesian teacher Franz Brentano into what is essentially a sophisticated modern view of the mind. Indeed, Freud redirected Brentano's analysis of consciousness as intentionality into a view of consciousness-independent intentionalism about the mental thatin effect set the agenda for latter-twentieth-century philosophy of mind. 

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96343-3

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Introduction

Wakefield Jerome C.

1-14

Freud and the transformations of psychology and philosophy of mind

Wakefield Jerome C.

15-55

"Unconscious" as "mental and not conscious"

Wakefield Jerome C.

57-103

The semantic objection to Freud's thesis

Wakefield Jerome C.

105-128

Freud's response to the semantic objection

Wakefield Jerome C.

129-164

Brentano, Freud's philosophical interlocutor

Wakefield Jerome C.

165-210

Cartesianism without the consciousness criterion

Wakefield Jerome C.

211-240

Freud's direct arguments against the consciousness criterion

Wakefield Jerome C.

241-262

Freud's argument, part 1

Wakefield Jerome C.

263-284

Freud's argument, part 2

Wakefield Jerome C.

285-347

Conclusion

Wakefield Jerome C.

349-360