{"product_id":"becoming-a-subject","title":"Becoming a Subject","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A 'subject' is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an 'I', taking in the world from her own subjective perspective; who is an agent, doing things for reasons, sometimes self-reflective, and able to assume responsibility for herself and some of her actions. The idea of a 'subject' points, then, toward an\n\u003cbr\u003eideal. It asks for the conditions under which a human infant becomes a subject, and for the  sorts of things, like self-deception and massive anxiety, that get in the way. What sorts\n\u003cbr\u003eof questions are these? Certainly philosophical. They burrow into central issues in moral philosophy: freedom of the will, the 'self', self-knowledge, the relations between reason and passion, between autonomy and self-knowledge, issues that form roughly the second half of the book. They lead also into metaphysics and epistemology: Is subjectivity incompatible with objectivity? Are subjects not also objects in the real world? As such, how are they to be treated? Would it be possible, in theory,\n\u003cbr\u003efor a creature to become a subject in the absence of relationships with other subjects? But the questions are also practical. In particular they are at the heart of psychoanalysis both as a theory of\n\u003cbr\u003ethe mind, and as a therapy which aims at maximizing the ideals of autonomy and self-knowledge implicit in the very idea of a 'subject'.One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more empirical sort. Cavell brings together for the first time reflections in philosophy, findings in neuroscience, studies in infant\n\u003cbr\u003edevelopment, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical vignettes from her own psychoanalytic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44059063877870,"sku":"9780199287086","price":169.32,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199287086.jpg?v=1706206697","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/becoming-a-subject","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}