Work and play
Collected papers on the philosophy of psychology, 1938-1963
Allers, Rudolf, Alexander Batthyany, Jorge Olaechea Catter, y Andrew Tallon. 2009. Work and play: collected papers on the philosophy of psychology, 1938-1963. Milwaukee, Wis: Marquette University Press.
Rudolf Allers – neurologist, psychiatrist and philosopher, former prominent Freudian and former founding member of the Adlerian Society of Individual Psychology, friend of Edith Stein, mentor of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Viktor E. Frankl – wrote these 14 essays on the philosophy of psychology between 1938 and 1963. Two key ideas in his thinking are reflected in these essays: no one single discipline can claim to be able to understand human personhood, yet each discipline might add some knowledge about certain aspects of it; and secondly, the discourse between psychiatry, philosophy, and theology is not one across borders, but rather one between and about human beings. This anthology not only provides us with a history of a discipline – consciousness research – which is currently evolving; it also serves as a model for how the project of a nonreductionist yet scientifically informed philosophy of personhood could and should be like.
“Today Allers is more actual than ever. His findings and knowledge are not limited by time. He has given us a lot, but he has also taken a lot away from us: in many aspects Allers has anticipated the psychology of the future.” Viktor E. Frankl, Author of Man’s Search for Meaning
Among the chapters:
Notes on Rudolf Allers and His Thought, Introduction
Cause in Psychology
Irresistible Impulses
The Vis Cogitativa and Evaluation
The Cognitive Aspect of Emotions
The Limitations of Medical Psychology
Intuition and Abstraction
Philosophia–Philanthropia
Ethics and Anthropology
The Dialectics of Freedom
Psychiatry and the Role of Personal Belief
Reflections on Co-Operation and Communication
Ontoanalysis: A New Trend in Psychiatry
Work and Play
The Freud Legend
