The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis
Michel Henry
Stanford University Press
This book’s basic argument is that the Freudian unconscious, far from constituting a radical break with the philosophy of consciousness, is merely the latest exemplar in a heritage of philosophical misunderstanding of the Cartesian cogito that interprets I think, therefore I am” as I represent myself, therefore I am” (in the classic interpretation of Heidegger, one of the targets of the book).