CHARACTER, PSYCHOANALYTIC IDENTIFICATION, AND NUMERICAL IDENTITY

• Published in: Ratio (Oxford) Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
• Main Author: Braddock, Louise
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2012; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Identity; Morality; Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Self awareness; Analytical Philosophy

Identification figures prominently in moral psychological explanations. I argue that in identification the subject has an ‘identity‐thought’, which is a thought about her numerical identity with the figure she identifies with. In Freud's psychoanalytic psychology character is founded on unconsc...