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标题：James's Critiques of the Freudian Unconscious - 25 Years Earlier
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作者：Eric Thomas Weber
期刊名称：William James Studies
电子版ISSN：1933-8295
出版年度：2012
卷号：9
页码：94-119
出版社：Illinois University Press
摘要：In The Principles of Psychology, William James addressed ten justifications for the concept of the unconscious mind, each of which he refuted. Twenty-five years later inThe Unconscious,Freudpresented many of the same, original arguments to justify the unconscious, without any acknowledgement of James's refutations. Some scholarsin the last few decadeshave claimed that James was in fact a supporter of a Freudian unconscious, contrary to expectations. In this essay, I first summarizeFreud's justification for the unconscious to highlight the arguments he used in 1915, before then demonstrating how clearly James had undercut these same argument in the Principles, published in 1890.Interpreters of James's thought should resist the claim that he would or did support Freud's idea of the unconscious, even if he at times spoke generously about other scholars. We also have reason to wonder about Freud's inattention to James's remarkable early work in psychology, especially given James's critiques of the concept of the unconscious