philosophical essays on freud is a 1982 anthology of articles about sigmund freud and psychoanalysis edited by the philosophers richard wollheim and james hopkins. published by cambridge university press, it includes an introduction from hopkins and an essay from wollheim, as well as selections from philosophers such as ludwig wittgenstein, clark glymour, adam morton, stuart hampshire, brian o'shaughnessy, jean-paul sartre, thomas nagel, and donald davidson. the essays deal with philosophical questions raised by the work of freud, including topics such as materialism, intentionality, and theories of the self's structure. they represent a range of different viewpoints, most of them from within the tradition of analytic philosophy. the book received a mixture of positive, mixed, and negative reviews. commentators found the contributions included in the book to be of uneven value.