Jeffrey McCurry is Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Jeffrey McCurry’s superb study – of Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – reveals the essence of the phenomenological project as shared by all three: a focus on the ephemeral yet indelible immediacy of our existence as living subjects. In so doing he sheds original light on the ethical, esthetic, and spiritual resonances of this project, thereby locating phenomenology at the beating heart of modernist life and thought. McCurry shows that Woolf and Merleau-Ponty are key participants in what he terms the Freudian age. At a still deeper level he demonstrates that Freud himself is imbued with the spirit of phenomenology. This is a book of unusual subtlety that offers a novel orientation toward key questions of psychology and philosophy.

• IntroductionAn Existential Revolution: A New Ethics of Experience1. Another Kind of Revolution: Existential2. Exploring Existential Revolutions: Cultural Sources3. The Freudian Age: A Recent Revolution4. Preview: Questions and ChaptersPart I: Freud Before the Freudians1. Toward Unsettled Life: Anomaly and Quandary in Freud2. Toward Insane Life: Immorality and Incoherence in FreudPart II: Freudians Beyond Freud3. Toward Creative Life: Recalcitrance and Futurity in Woolf4. Toward Wondering Life: Mystery, Miracle, and Menace in Merleau-PontyConclusionThe Freudian Age: A Contemporary HorizonNotesIndex

Jeffrey McCurry is Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Jeffrey McCurry’s superb study – of Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – reveals the essence of the phenomenological project as shared by all three: a focus on the ephemeral yet indelible immediacy of our existence as living subjects. In so doing he sheds original light on the ethical, esthetic, and spiritual resonances of this project, thereby locating phenomenology at the beating heart of modernist life and thought. McCurry shows that Woolf and Merleau-Ponty are key participants in what he terms the Freudian age. At a still deeper level he demonstrates that Freud himself is imbued with the spirit of phenomenology. This is a book of unusual subtlety that offers a novel orientation toward key questions of psychology and philosophy.

• IntroductionAn Existential Revolution: A New Ethics of Experience1. Another Kind of Revolution: Existential2. Exploring Existential Revolutions: Cultural Sources3. The Freudian Age: A Recent Revolution4. Preview: Questions and ChaptersPart I: Freud Before the Freudians1. Toward Unsettled Life: Anomaly and Quandary in Freud2. Toward Insane Life: Immorality and Incoherence in FreudPart II: Freudians Beyond Freud3. Toward Creative Life: Recalcitrance and Futurity in Woolf4. Toward Wondering Life: Mystery, Miracle, and Menace in Merleau-PontyConclusionThe Freudian Age: A Contemporary HorizonNotesIndex

Jeffrey McCurry is Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Jeffrey McCurry’s superb study – of Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – reveals the essence of the phenomenological project as shared by all three: a focus on the ephemeral yet indelible immediacy of our existence as living subjects. In so doing he sheds original light on the ethical, esthetic, and spiritual resonances of this project, thereby locating phenomenology at the beating heart of modernist life and thought. McCurry shows that Woolf and Merleau-Ponty are key participants in what he terms the Freudian age. At a still deeper level he demonstrates that Freud himself is imbued with the spirit of phenomenology. This is a book of unusual subtlety that offers a novel orientation toward key questions of psychology and philosophy.

• IntroductionAn Existential Revolution: A New Ethics of Experience1. Another Kind of Revolution: Existential2. Exploring Existential Revolutions: Cultural Sources3. The Freudian Age: A Recent Revolution4. Preview: Questions and ChaptersPart I: Freud Before the Freudians1. Toward Unsettled Life: Anomaly and Quandary in Freud2. Toward Insane Life: Immorality and Incoherence in FreudPart II: Freudians Beyond Freud3. Toward Creative Life: Recalcitrance and Futurity in Woolf4. Toward Wondering Life: Mystery, Miracle, and Menace in Merleau-PontyConclusionThe Freudian Age: A Contemporary HorizonNotesIndex