The Ego and the Flesh : An Introduction to Egoanalysis

Jacob Rogozinski

ISBN 10: 0804759898 / ISBN 13: 9780804759892

Editore: Stanford University Press Jul 2010, 2010

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Neuware - This book criticizes theories, dominant today, that reduce the self to a simple illusion, proposing a new theory of the ego that allows us to better understand our existence and our relations with others.

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• Titolo: The Ego and the Flesh : An Introduction to Egoanalysis
• Editore: Stanford University Press Jul 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804759898
• ISBN 13: 9780804759892
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 226 L x 152 A x 23 P (millimetri) 226 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 517 grammi

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Riassunto

Is our ego but an illusion, a mere appearance produced by a reality that is foreign to us? Is it the main source of violence and injustice? Jacob Rogozinski calls into question these prejudices that dominate current philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. Arguing that we must distinguish the true ego from the alienated and narcissistic construct, he calls for an end to egicide, or the destruction of the ego. Ego and the Flesh offers a critique of the two masters of egicide, Heidegger and Lacan, along with a rereading of Descartes, who was the first to discover the absolute truth of "I am." The book's main purpose, however, is to provide an entirely new theory of the self, egoanalysis, which reveals a divided ego-flesh. Constantly striving to attain unity, the ego-flesh is haunted by a remainder, whose role sheds light on various enigmas: the encounter with the other, the passage from hate to love, the death and the resurrection of the I. For ego-analysis is no mere theory: it opens the way to our deliverance.

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Jacob Rogozinski is Professor of Philosophy and Metaphysics at the Marc-Bloch University, Strasbourg. He is the author of Le don de la loi: Kant et l'énigme de l'éthique (1999) and Faire part: cryptes de Derrida (2005).