Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Unconscious

FAIN: FB-12392-75

Thomas E. Ewens
Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI 02903-2717)

Freud's discovery of the unconscious and his subsequent claim that he founded a new science of the psyche which is "the substructure, perhaps even the entire foundation: of the sciences of man has provoked a set of questions which have perplexed behavior scientists, philosophers and psychoanalysts ever since. In putting radically into question concerning the status of intelligibility in the human sciences and in philosophy. This study will re-examine the nature of that question.