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Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf's criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy.
During the first half of the 20th century, a profound transformation - an existential revolution - took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves. Inspired by Freud's psychoanalysis, a newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged. With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud's ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human.
Jeffrey McCurry describes how this new state of affairs stood in contrast to how immediate experience had been historically dismissed, devalued, repressed, and even negated in the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy. This experience posed dangers to psychological stability, social order, and philosophical certainty. McCurry examines how Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Woolf's modernist criticism and fiction, and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, literature, and philosophy in turns embraced the risks and dangers of putting immediate experience as the center of humanity, of respecting, understanding, appreciating, and following the lead of immediate, spontaneous, pre-reflective, pre-evaluative, concrete experience in human life.
Contents
Introduction
An Existential Revolution: A New Ethics of Experience
1. Another Kind of Revolution: Existential
2. Exploring Existential Revolutions: Cultural Sources
3. The Freudian Age: A Recent Revolution
4. Preview: Questions and Chapters
Part I: Freud Before the Freudians
1. Toward Unsettled Life: Anomaly and Quandary in Freud
2. Toward Insane Life: Immorality and Incoherence in Freud
Part II: Freudians Beyond Freud
3. Toward Creative Life: Recalcitrance and Futurity in Woolf
4. Toward Wondering Life: Mystery, Miracle, and Menace in Merleau-Ponty
Conclusion
The Freudian Age: A Contemporary Horizon
Notes
Index
