Marcia Cavell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Cavell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavell |
| SIGNATURE | CAVELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1570 Olympus Avenue Berkeley, CA 94708, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Freud and The Buddha
On “The Politics of Psychoanalytic Lexicography”
Spontaneity
Self-Knowledge and Self-Understanding
The author contrasts the third-person or objective view of the self with the first-person view, and proposes that self-discovery often requires a dialogue between the first-person and third-person viewpoints. She reviews Descartes’ articulation of the ocular model and discusses related contributions and comments by Hume, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Knowledge of one’s own feelings is also addressed, with reference to the work of S. Cavell, Moran, Alt…
Freedom and forgiveness
In the history of philosophy and political thought freedom has meant a number of different things. The author considers several of these meanings and their relevance to psychoanalytic theory. The general argument against freedom that has been mounted in the history of thought, and echoed by Freud, is the thesis of causal determinism; but it is urged here that this in itself is no threat to freedom in the sense of the word required for moral agenc…
The Social Character of Thinking
What Freud called “the reality principle,” or judgment, presumes on the part of the child who has arrived at judgment the implicit grasp of a complex of concepts: truth and falsity, belief, subjective and objective, the objectively real, my perspective and yours. Work in both philosophy and infant research points to the essential importance in the development of judgment of a triangulating situation that involves particular sorts of communication…
The Intelligence of the Emotions
Marcia Cavell Responds
On Reality and Objectivity
Marcia Cavell Responds
Commentaries
Knowledge, Consensus and Uncertainty
Some months ago the editors of this journal asked me if I would undertake a series of short entries of a general sort on philosophical topics germane to current discussions in psychoanalysis. Both authors and topics were left to my discretion. I thought the series was a good idea and gladly agreed to do it. To my surprise and pleasure, all the philosophers I invited accepted I am only sorry that the series could not be longer as there are other p…
Beside One's Self
La autora analiza la solución que da Davidson a las paradojas de la irracionalidad en conexión con dos representaciones psicoanalíticas diferentes de la mente dividida. En la primera, la más conocida, la represión es un tipo de línea horizontal que divide una mente vertical “profunda” constituida de arriba abajo por pensamientos expresables. En la segunda, la mente aparece separada por disociación en grupos de memoria y pensamientos, algunos de l…
Commentaries
A Response to Joel Whitebook
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality? what must the mind be like for it to be
The Psychoanalytic Mind
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Psychoanalytic Mind: from Freud to Philosophy. By Marcia Cavell. (Harvard UP, 1993- Pp- x + 276- P r i c e £23.95.) John Cottingham John Cottingham University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 182, January 1996, Pages 134–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956321 Published: 01 January 1996
Reply to Marcia Cavell
The Psychoanalytic Mind
Philosophy
Love and Beauty
Interpretation, Psychoanalysis, and the Philosophy of Mind
I suggest that a conflict between two philosophical models of the mind so far unremarked in discussions of psychoanalysis is at the heart of questions about its status as a science, the objectivity of psychoanalytic interpretations, and the nature of the unconscious. In philosophy one model is embodied in the tradition of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, among many others, which construes thought as prior to and independent of language. According …
Knowledge and value
Understanding Irrationality
Recent philosophical work attempts to understand irrational acts on the model of practical reasoning. Such acts are regarded as intelligible in the light of ordinary propositional attitudes which are nevertheless conjoined in a way that explains the irrationality. It is here argued that some irrational acts cannot be so understood; that they are not actions, per se; and that Freud’s notion of “primary process”, particularly in its emphasis on hal…
Psychoanalytic Theory of Art
Freedom and forgiveness
In the history of philosophy and political thought freedom has meant a number of different things. The author considers several of these meanings and their relevance to psychoanalytic theory. The general argument against freedom that has been mounted in the history of thought, and echoed by Freud, is the thesis of causal determinism; but it is urged here that this in itself is no threat to freedom in the sense of the word required for moral agenc…
Interpretation, Psychoanalysis, and the Philosophy of Mind
I suggest that a conflict between two philosophical models of the mind so far unremarked in discussions of psychoanalysis is at the heart of questions about its status as a science, the objectivity of psychoanalytic interpretations, and the nature of the unconscious. In philosophy one model is embodied in the tradition of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, among many others, which construes thought as prior to and independent of language. According …
Knowledge, Consensus and Uncertainty
Some months ago the editors of this journal asked me if I would undertake a series of short entries of a general sort on philosophical topics germane to current discussions in psychoanalysis. Both authors and topics were left to my discretion. I thought the series was a good idea and gladly agreed to do it. To my surprise and pleasure, all the philosophers I invited accepted I am only sorry that the series could not be longer as there are other p…
The Social Character of Thinking
What Freud called “the reality principle,” or judgment, presumes on the part of the child who has arrived at judgment the implicit grasp of a complex of concepts: truth and falsity, belief, subjective and objective, the objectively real, my perspective and yours. Work in both philosophy and infant research points to the essential importance in the development of judgment of a triangulating situation that involves particular sorts of communication…
Philosophy
God and Self
first place. Or so I think many theologians and people who believe would say. I intend here to put into secular language some aspects of that claim. Reading superficially through much of work done in recent years by philosophers of religion is convincing proof that is not dead, for simple reason that could never have existed. Atheism, as Michael Scriven has so well argued in Primary Philosophy, is only option available to rational man. The first …
Knowledge and value
Understanding Irrationality
Recent philosophical work attempts to understand irrational acts on the model of practical reasoning. Such acts are regarded as intelligible in the light of ordinary propositional attitudes which are nevertheless conjoined in a way that explains the irrationality. It is here argued that some irrational acts cannot be so understood; that they are not actions, per se; and that Freud’s notion of “primary process”, particularly in its emphasis on hal…
Psychoanalytic Theory of Art
Interpretation, Psychoanalysis, and the Philosophy of Mind
I suggest that a conflict between two philosophical models of the mind so far unremarked in discussions of psychoanalysis is at the heart of questions about its status as a science, the objectivity of psychoanalytic interpretations, and the nature of the unconscious. In philosophy one model is embodied in the tradition of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, among many others, which construes thought as prior to and independent of language. According …
Love and Beauty
Philosophy
The Psychoanalytic Mind
A Response to Joel Whitebook
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality? what must the mind be like for it to be
The Psychoanalytic Mind
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Psychoanalytic Mind: from Freud to Philosophy. By Marcia Cavell. (Harvard UP, 1993- Pp- x + 276- P r i c e £23.95.) John Cottingham John Cottingham University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 182, January 1996, Pages 134–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956321 Published: 01 January 1996
Reply to Marcia Cavell
Commentaries
Beside One's Self
La autora analiza la solución que da Davidson a las paradojas de la irracionalidad en conexión con dos representaciones psicoanalíticas diferentes de la mente dividida. En la primera, la más conocida, la represión es un tipo de línea horizontal que divide una mente vertical “profunda” constituida de arriba abajo por pensamientos expresables. En la segunda, la mente aparece separada por disociación en grupos de memoria y pensamientos, algunos de l…
Knowledge, Consensus and Uncertainty
Some months ago the editors of this journal asked me if I would undertake a series of short entries of a general sort on philosophical topics germane to current discussions in psychoanalysis. Both authors and topics were left to my discretion. I thought the series was a good idea and gladly agreed to do it. To my surprise and pleasure, all the philosophers I invited accepted I am only sorry that the series could not be longer as there are other p…
Commentaries
Marcia Cavell Responds
On Reality and Objectivity
Marcia Cavell Responds
Freedom and forgiveness
In the history of philosophy and political thought freedom has meant a number of different things. The author considers several of these meanings and their relevance to psychoanalytic theory. The general argument against freedom that has been mounted in the history of thought, and echoed by Freud, is the thesis of causal determinism; but it is urged here that this in itself is no threat to freedom in the sense of the word required for moral agenc…
The Social Character of Thinking
What Freud called “the reality principle,” or judgment, presumes on the part of the child who has arrived at judgment the implicit grasp of a complex of concepts: truth and falsity, belief, subjective and objective, the objectively real, my perspective and yours. Work in both philosophy and infant research points to the essential importance in the development of judgment of a triangulating situation that involves particular sorts of communication…
The Intelligence of the Emotions
Self-Knowledge and Self-Understanding
The author contrasts the third-person or objective view of the self with the first-person view, and proposes that self-discovery often requires a dialogue between the first-person and third-person viewpoints. She reviews Descartes’ articulation of the ocular model and discusses related contributions and comments by Hume, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Knowledge of one’s own feelings is also addressed, with reference to the work of S. Cavell, Moran, Alt…
Spontaneity
On “The Politics of Psychoanalytic Lexicography”
Psychology (21 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Psychoanalysis (18 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (8 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Analytic philosophy (4 works) · Contemporary philosophy (4 works)