RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Apperception, Friedrich Nietzsche, Transcendental Idealism
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Hartmann introduced the concept of unconscious, marking a pinnacle during the nineteenth century. It took freud half a century to supersede him. This work fills that gap by providing an in depth account of key figures in this history. Study how these figures influenced freud and the origins of pa, and the their independent and modern relevance for other fields like philosophy, literature and aesthetics. Ellenberger: unconscious is an aspect of human subjectivity which has an objective existence in all members of the human race. But the notion that unconscious was discovered (because humans as thinking creatures could have invented the idea of the uc), there is doubt as to whether the uc actually exists e"s study is methodologically inadequate. How and why did the question of the unconscious become a central theme of. Regenboden points out the history of the uc can be understood as both (1) history of a philosophical problem and as (2) history of a concept.
