ethics of psychoanalysis

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

philosopher

psychoanalyst

feminist

Lacanian

theorist

university professor

Brown University

innovator in the field of

psychoanalysis

is the idea that we would be willing to sacrifice for the other and the question as to whether the other would be willing to sacrifice for us'.

Confronted with utilitarianism's moral command 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,' Freud reacts with undisguised and una bashed incomprehension, with feelings of 'surprise and bewilderment''Why should we . . . ''38 One should not mistake this reaction for a lack of altruism. Freud does not hesitate to agree with Bentham that we are basically altruistic, that we would be willing to sacrifice for the Other. But would the Other be willing to sacrifice for us' This is the question upon which the ethics of psychoanalysis turns. (joan Copjec 'desire')

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