Jonathan Lear
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 286401 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Lear |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Lear |
| FIRMA | LEAR J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1982-8759 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Pin the tale on the donkey
The publication of RSE gives analysts an occasion to return to Freud, with opportunities for remembering, repeating and working through. This paper returns to a fascinating symptom in Notes on a Case of Obsessional Neurosis and explores connections that are in plain sight but tend to be overlooked. In particular, it returns to the figure of Balaam and his Donkey in the Hebrew Bible. Issues include the fading of common knowledge, indifference, for…
Gratitude, freedom and refusal
This paper is an exploration of gratitude as a fundamental concept in psychoanalysis. Melanie Klein's classic article "Envy and Gratitude" (1957) named gratitude at one pole on an axis of human suffering and flourishing, but with a few notable exceptions, the article stimulated research into envy. This paper explores the historical and philosophical traditions that have, to some extent unconsciously, influenced our contemporary understandings of …
Degenerations of Democracy
Imagining the End
Red O'Shaughnessy, Our Friendship
Transience and hope
This essay is about what it is like to read Freud again in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. It offers a close reading of Freud's essay "On Transience" and it brings to light how it might be read differently with the thoughts of world-catastrophe on our minds
Response to Letter to the Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
A Freudian Naturalization of Kantian Philosophy
Encountering and speaking to the unconscious
This paper tries to answer the question: what is it about the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis that makes it fundamental? The paper argues that the fundamental rule is fundamental to psychoanalysis because it is fundamental to human being that we are animals who think and speak and understand ourselves in logos - that is, in a special form of responsibility-bearing language. We learn how we bear these responsibilities by learning how to take a …
Critical Response II. Difficulties with the Difficulty
Gettysburg Mourning
정신분석의 근본 규칙과 근본 가치(The Fundamental Rule and Fundamental Value of Psychoanalysis)
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
The Fundamental Rule and Fundamental Value of Psychoanalysis
Mourning and moral psychology
This article investigates what it would be to complete the project of ancient Greek ethics and provide a robust moral psychology. It considers Hans Loewald’s interpretation of the psychoanalytic conception of mourning; and argues that this provides a paradigm of what an adequate moral psychology might look like
Wisdom won from illness
From its inception psychoanalysis claimed not merely to be an effective therapy for psychological suffering, but to shed light on the human condition. But what kind of insight does psychoanalysis offer? This paper locates psychoanalysis in the western philosophical tradition, arguing that psychoanalysis provides not only theoretical wisdom about the human, but practical wisdom of a peculiar kind. The human mind, through its self-conscious underst…
The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt
The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt* Jonathan Lear 1. Even after we pay due regard to his wish that the voices of the pseudonymous authors not be taken to reflect his own views (Concluding, trans. Hannay 527-529), it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the mature Kierkegaard found his early writings on irony—there is no better word for it—immature. In the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, published in 1846, the author Johannes Climacu…
Jonathan Lear Responds to J. Todd Dean
Archimedean Desire
The thought of Hans W. Loewald
1.If Hans Loewald will be remembered, it will not be because of a new theory he contributed, nor because of a scientific discovery, but because of the wisdom that pervades his writing. For that rea
Catharsis
Radical Hope
Technique and final cause in psychoanalysis
This paper argues that if one considers just a single clinical moment there may be no principled way to choose among different approaches to psychoanalytic technique. One must in addition take into account what Aristotle called the final cause of psychoanalysis, which this paper argues is freedom. However, freedom is itself an open-ended concept with many aspects that need to be explored and developed from a psychoanalytic perspective. This paper…
The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline
Radical Hope
The Introduction of Eros
Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics
r he fundamental problem in the philosophy of mathematics, which has persisted from Plato's day until ours, is to provide an account of mathematical truth that is harmonious with our understanding of how we come to know mathematical truths.1 In Physics B2 and Metaphysics M3 Aristotle provided the seeds of a unified philosophy of mathematics. This has not been generally appreciated for two reasons. First, it is commonly assumed that Aristotle thou…
Inside and Outside The Republic
An engaged reader of the Republic must at some point wonder how or if it all fits together. There seems to be jumbled within that text a challenge to conventional justice, a political theory, a psychology, a metaphysics, a theory of education and a critique of art, music and poetry. A brilliant work; but is it an integrated whole? A just republic, for Plato, turns out to be a harmonious, though differentiated, unity; and so the question can be re…
Katharsis
Wisdom won from illness
From its inception psychoanalysis claimed not merely to be an effective therapy for psychological suffering, but to shed light on the human condition. But what kind of insight does psychoanalysis offer? This paper locates psychoanalysis in the western philosophical tradition, arguing that psychoanalysis provides not only theoretical wisdom about the human, but practical wisdom of a peculiar kind. The human mind, through its self-conscious underst…
Encountering and speaking to the unconscious
This paper tries to answer the question: what is it about the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis that makes it fundamental? The paper argues that the fundamental rule is fundamental to psychoanalysis because it is fundamental to human being that we are animals who think and speak and understand ourselves in logos - that is, in a special form of responsibility-bearing language. We learn how we bear these responsibilities by learning how to take a …
The thought of Hans W. Loewald
1.If Hans Loewald will be remembered, it will not be because of a new theory he contributed, nor because of a scientific discovery, but because of the wisdom that pervades his writing. For that rea
Technique and final cause in psychoanalysis
This paper argues that if one considers just a single clinical moment there may be no principled way to choose among different approaches to psychoanalytic technique. One must in addition take into account what Aristotle called the final cause of psychoanalysis, which this paper argues is freedom. However, freedom is itself an open-ended concept with many aspects that need to be explored and developed from a psychoanalytic perspective. This paper…
Working through the end of civilization
This is an account of how a civilization works through the problems it faces when it is threatened with destruction. It focuses on the example of the Crow Nation, an Indian tribe of the northwest plains of North America, and their last great chief Plenty Coups. Psychoanalytic ideas play a crucial role in explaining how a creative response was possible. In particular, their collective use of dream-visions and dream-interpretation made possible the…
The idea of a moral psychology
In this paper the author addresses the question of the significance of psychoanalysis for moral psychology via a more specific question: the impact of psychoanalysis on British philosophy in the twentieth century. He argues that there has been no influence of any real significance, and offers intellectual reasons why not. However, he also argues that there has recently emerged the possibility for a future engagement between psychoanalysis and phi…
Jumping from the couch
This paper addr-linees two questions: first, how do phantasies work? Second, how do these mental activities affect a person's overall emotional life? The first question tends to be overlooked since those who accept, for example, projective identification as a basic mental activity tend also to treat it as an explanatory primitive. On this view, there is no further question to ask about how projective identification itself works; rather, other psy…
A Note on Zeno's Arrow
The paradox, I conjecture, had the following form: (1) Anything that is occupying a space just its own size is at rest. (2) A moving arrow, while it is moving, is moving in the present. (3) But in the present the arrow is occupying a space just its own size. (4) Therefore, in the present the arrow is at rest. (5) Therefore a moving arrow, while it is moving, is at rest. Two items about the reconstruction deserve mention. First, I have interpreted…
Transience and hope
This essay is about what it is like to read Freud again in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. It offers a close reading of Freud's essay "On Transience" and it brings to light how it might be read differently with the thoughts of world-catastrophe on our minds
Gettysburg Mourning
Avowal and Unfreedom
XII—Aristotelian Infinity
XII—Aristotelian Infinity Get access Jonathan Lear Jonathan Lear Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 June 1980, Pages 187–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/80.1.187 Published: 08 September 2015
A Note on Zeno's Arrow
The paradox, I conjecture, had the following form: (1) Anything that is occupying a space just its own size is at rest. (2) A moving arrow, while it is moving, is moving in the present. (3) But in the present the arrow is occupying a space just its own size. (4) Therefore, in the present the arrow is at rest. (5) Therefore a moving arrow, while it is moving, is at rest. Two items about the reconstruction deserve mention. First, I have interpreted…
Aristotle and Logical Theory
Preface 1. Syllogistic consequence 2. Completeness and compactness 3. Hypothetical syllogisms 4. Invalid inference 5. Invalid proofs Appendix: a note on ignorance 6. Proof by refutation Bibliography Indices
Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics
r he fundamental problem in the philosophy of mathematics, which has persisted from Plato's day until ours, is to provide an account of mathematical truth that is harmonious with our understanding of how we come to know mathematical truths.1 In Physics B2 and Metaphysics M3 Aristotle provided the seeds of a unified philosophy of mathematics. This has not been generally appreciated for two reasons. First, it is commonly assumed that Aristotle thou…
The Contemporary Relevance of Ancient Logical Theory
John Corcoran, Michael Scanlan; The Contemporary Relevance of Ancient Logical Theory, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 126, 1 January 1982, Pa
Aristotle and Logical Theory
Moral Objectivity
Morality exercises a deep and questionable influence on the way we live our lives. The influence is deep both because moral injunctions are embedded in our psyches long before we can reflect on their status and because even after we become reflective agents, the question of how we should live our lives among others is intimately bound up with the more general question of how we should live our lives: our stance toward morality and our conception …
Aristotle
This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; and what must we be like to understand it systematic…
Katharsis
Aristotle
Inside and Outside The Republic
An engaged reader of the Republic must at some point wonder how or if it all fits together. There seems to be jumbled within that text a challenge to conventional justice, a political theory, a psychology, a metaphysics, a theory of education and a critique of art, music and poetry. A brilliant work; but is it an integrated whole? A just republic, for Plato, turns out to be a harmonious, though differentiated, unity; and so the question can be re…
The Introduction of Eros
Open Minded
Jumping from the couch
This paper addr-linees two questions: first, how do phantasies work? Second, how do these mental activities affect a person's overall emotional life? The first question tends to be overlooked since those who accept, for example, projective identification as a basic mental activity tend also to treat it as an explanatory primitive. On this view, there is no further question to ask about how projective identification itself works; rather, other psy…
Jumping From the Couch
This paper addresses two questions: first, how do phantasies work? Second, how do these mental activities affect a person's overall emotional life? The first question tends to be overlooked since those who accept, for example, projective identification as a basic mental activity tend also to treat it as an explanatory primitive. On this view, there is no further question to ask about how projective identification itself works; rather, other psych…
The idea of a moral psychology
In this paper the author addresses the question of the significance of psychoanalysis for moral psychology via a more specific question: the impact of psychoanalysis on British philosophy in the twentieth century. He argues that there has been no influence of any real significance, and offers intellectual reasons why not. However, he also argues that there has recently emerged the possibility for a future engagement between psychoanalysis and phi…
Therapeutic Action
Avowal and Unfreedom
Freud
Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of psychology. He also made profound insights into the psychology and understanding of human beings. In this brilliant and long-awaited introduction, Jonathan Lear--one of the most respected writers on Freud--shows how Freud also made fundamental contributions to philosophy and why he ranks alongside Plato, Aristo…
Allegory and Myth in Plato's Republic
Radical Hope
Deference and Defiance in Monterrey
MICHAEL Snodgrass's study of working-class deference and defiance in Monterrey, Mexico is a welcome and important contribution to our understanding of the peculiarities of labour relations in this highly industrialised northern city. In the late nineteenth century, ‘Mexico's Chicago’ emerged as the nation's pre-eminent industrial centre and resumed its rapid growth after the disruptions of the revolution (1910–17). Local elites elaborated a disco…
The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline
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