John Stuart Mill Translated by Siegmund Freud

Autor: Michael Molnar
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Psychoanalysis and History. 1:195-205
ISSN: 1755-201X
1460-8235
DOI: 10.3366/pah.1999.1.2.195
Popis: Freud's translation of J.S. Mill involved an encounter with the traditions of British empirical philosophy and associationist psychology, both of which go back to Locke and Hume. The translation of Mill's essay on Plato also brought Freud into contact with the philosophical controversy between the advocates of intuition and faith and the advocates of perception and reason. A comparison of source and translated texts demonstrates Freud's faithfulness to his author. A few significant deviations may be connected with Freud's ambiguous attitude to women's rights, as advocated in the essay The Enfranchisement of Women. Stylistically Freud had nothing to learn from Mill. His model in English was Macaulay, whom he was also reading at this period.
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