Keat: Psychoanalysis and Human Emancipation 1 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HUMAN EMANCIPATION
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چکیده
In the Introduction I noted how Habermas presented psychoanalysis as ‘the only tangible example of a science incorporating methodical self-reflection’, and thus as a model for the general epistemological features of a critical social theory guided by the emancipatory interest in human autonomy. I will now examine his account in more detail, especially its claims about the relations between autonomy, causality and the unconscious. By doing this I hope to show how certain features of this view of critical social theory can be preserved in a reconstructed form which is basically deterministic, and which builds upon some of my suggestions in the previous chapter about how to characterize the human species by comparison with other ‘objects’. Discussion of Habermas’s claim about the distinctive criteria of validity for critical theory, which is also developed through his account of psychoanalysis, will be left till the next chapter.
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