Determinism, Possibility, and Ethics
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Vol. 34 (4) , 933-974
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000306518603400408
Abstract
This essay reexamines the age-old “determinism-free will” problem from a psychoanalytic perspective. The first section recapitulates the author's (1985) earlier argument on the nature of causation in psychoanalysis; the second part examines the compatibility of determinism and freedom; and the final section looks at the ethical ramifications of the issues at hand. The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, “What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?”Keywords
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