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A Phenomenological Approach to the Unconscious

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Husserlian Phenomenology in a New Key

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 35))

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This paper is an attempt to offer a phenomenological approach to unconsciousness without trying to reduce it to conscious intentional processes. I shall offer a phenomenological model of intentional acts and shall try to show that unconsciousness (non-intentional content) can be grasped in its specifity.

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  1. This model is borrowed from Michael Strauss in Empfindung, Intention und Zeichen, Typologie des Sinntragens (Freiburg/Munich: Verlag Karl Alber GmbH, 1984).

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  2. Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (n.p.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1963), p. 51.

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  3. See Jacques Lacan, “Intervention sur le transfert,” in Écrits (Paris: Ed. du Seuil, 1966), pp. 291–221.

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  4. See Sigmund Freud, “Negation,” in Collected Papers, ed. J. Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press & The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1950), V, p. 182.

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  5. Sigmund Freud, “Negation,” in Collected Papers, ed. J. Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press & The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1950), p. 185.

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  6. See Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (n.p.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1963), p. 31.

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  7. Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (n.p.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1963), p 44.

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  8. Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (n.p.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1963), p. 72.

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Balaban, O. (1991). A Phenomenological Approach to the Unconscious. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Husserlian Phenomenology in a New Key. Analecta Husserliana, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3450-7_35

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