In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud\'s thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact.
He also considers some of the deeper issues and problems Freud engaged with, brilliantly illustrating their philosophical significance: human sexu.
These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nature of the self and subjectivity, and ethics and religion.
In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud\'s thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact