Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Roger Frie is Associate Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University, Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and Supervisor and Faculty member in the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalis and Psychology.

Roger Frie's important new study makes vital links between psychoanalytical, phenomenological, and other philosophical approaches to questions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, as well as bringing the neglected figure of Ludwig Binswanger into contemporary debate. Frie argues impressively against many current orthodoxies, showing that theories, like those of Lacan or Habermas, in which subjectivity is understood in purely linguistic terms, fail to account for some of the most central aspects of self-conscious life.