Abstract
Tamas Pataki's (2014) “Wish-fulfillment in philosophy and psychoanalysisâ€
Highlights
Wish-fulfillment is a psychoanalytic concept that applies to situations in which some agent with a frustrated desire represents the world as he would like it to be—rather than as it is—and in this manner pacifies the desire
Pataki’s own treatment is remarkable in that it espouses the radical extension of agency where past treatments—like the Bayesian story in Hopkins (2012)—have largely attempted to cash out psychoanalytic concepts in deflated terms; and lately even in terms that interface with the sub-personal theories of cognitive science
He even cites much of this work approvingly. He is skeptical about the reach of neuroscience when it comes to mental illness. He claims that a neurological account of some mental illness cannot constitute a sufficient account of that illness; that is to say that he endorses the indispensability of the Intentional idiom
Summary
A book review on Wish-fulfillment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The Tyranny of Desire Wish-fulfillment is a psychoanalytic concept that applies to situations in which some agent with a frustrated desire represents the world as he would like it to be—rather than as it is—and in this manner pacifies the desire. In this book Tamas Pataki gives a theory of wishfulfillment which is meant to unify and explain a range of phenomena that does justice to the original explanatory scope of the concept, from neurosis and delusion to art and religion.
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