Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1

Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor, Professor of Social Work, and Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, as well as Associate Faculty in the College of Global Public Health, Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Bioethics and the Center for Ancient Studies, and Honorary Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, all at New York University. 

1. Introduction: Freud and the Transformation of Psychology.- 2. "Unconscious" as "Mental but Not Conscious": Why Examples of Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Largely Irrelevant to Freud's Philosophy-of-Mind Argument.- 3. The Semantic Objection to Freud's Thesis.- 4. Freud's Response to the Semantic Objection: Concepts, Essentialism, and the Definition of 'Mental'.- 5. Freud and Brentano: The Cartesian Tradition that Confronted Freud.- 6. Cartesianism Without the Consciousness Criterion: Solving the Mystery of Freud's Missing Account of the Mental.- 7. Freud's Direct Arguments Against the Consciousness Criterion: Does Freud Beg the Question of the Boundary of Psychology?.- 8: Freud on the Mind-Body Problem: Turning Psychophysical Parallelism on Its Head.- 9. Freud's Argument for Brain Representationality as the Essence of the Mental.- 10. Conclusion: The Freudian Century in Philosophy of Mind.

"Jerome Wakefield's meticulous and brilliant work, powered by his scholarly knowledge in the areas of philosophy and psychoanalysis, is displayed in this book and is welcomed in this context. ... Wakefield's work stands as an example of the kind of bridging that is necessary between these two fields." (Cuneyt Iscan, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)

“Jerome Wakefield’s meticulous and brilliant work, powered by his scholarly knowledge in the areas of philosophy and psychoanalysis, is displayed in this book and is welcomed in this context. … Wakefield’s work stands as an example of the kind of bridging that is necessary between these two fields.” (Cuneyt Iscan, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)