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Ten Questions for Psychoanalysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

D. Z. Phillips
D. Z. Phillips
Affiliation:
University College of Swansea and Claremont Graduate School
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A psychoanalyst is said to provide the real explanation of a person's behaviour; an explanation which the person has arrived at with the help of a psychoanalyst. The person was not aware of the real character of his behaviour. It may have exhibited unconscious thoughts, beliefs, motives, intentions and emotions. In his paper ‘The Unconscious’, in Mind 1959, Ilham Dilman says, ‘What those who talked of “Freud's discovery of the unconscious” had in mind is a group of innovations which “the founder of psycho-analysis” brought to bear on the study of the human mind’ (p.446). I have ten questions concerning the relation of this ‘group of innovations’ to human behaviour.

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Philosophy , Volume 68 , Issue 264 , April 1993 , pp. 183 - 192
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1993

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