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SUMMARY:Imagination and Reason\, Method and Mourning in Freudian Psychoana
 lysis - Jonathan Lear\, University of Chicago
DTSTART:20170216T141500Z
DTEND:20170216T154500Z
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CONTACT:Matt Dougherty
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn the Republic\, Socrates famously says that reaso
 n should rule because it is wise and has foresight over the whole soul. Th
 is paper examines how we might understand the psychoanalytic fate of that 
 claim.  \n\nThis is a special\, one-off lecture organised by the Faculty o
 f Philosophy. Professor Lear is the John U Nef Distinguished Service Profe
 ssor in Philosophy and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium
  for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. He is also a former
  Fellow of Clare College and a practicing psychoanalyst. He works primaril
 y on philosophical conceptions of the human psyche from Socrates onward bu
 t has written on various topics in philosophy and psychoanalysis. His book
 s include Aristotle and Logical Theory (1980)\, Aristotle: the desire to u
 nderstand (1988)\, Love and its place in nature: a philosophical interpret
 ation of Freudian psychoanalysis (1990)\, Open minded: working out the log
 ic of the soul (1998)\, Freud (2005)\, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face o
 f Cultural Devastation (2006)\, and most recently A Case for Irony (2011
 ).\n
LOCATION:Runcie Room\, Faculty of Divinity\, West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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