{"id":3779,"date":"2021-12-24T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scuoladipsicanalisifreudiana.it\/?page_id=3779"},"modified":"2021-12-24T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:47:37","slug":"fare-cio-che-si-vuole-in-una-cornice-determinista-la-teoria-freudiana-del-libero-arbitrio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scuoladipsicanalisifreudiana.it\/en\/fare-cio-che-si-vuole-in-una-cornice-determinista-la-teoria-freudiana-del-libero-arbitrio\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing what one wants to do within a deterministic framework: Freud\u2019s theory of free will"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Teaching” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Francesca Guma<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Prerequisites” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]None.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Module outcomes” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Free will is an ancient concept which is deeply rooted in our thinking. It is fundamental to the construction of the image we have of ourselves as agents able to deliberate on our actions. However, although the experience of freedom is actually present, is it a veridical or an illusory experience?<\/p>\n

This conundrum has affected areas such as philosophy, theology, morality and law for centuries, without reaching shared results. Such a riddle should certainly be of greater interest to psychology, a discipline that, more than others, focuses on dynamics linked, for example, to people’s capacity for choice, self-control and self-awareness.<\/p>\n

Within the framework of ancient and recent debates on free will, Freud\u2019s conception has mostly been considered a position of denial of freedom: by naturalizing psychic events, he supposedly placed the subjects in a deterministic horizon, binding them inextricably to laws of nature. In line with many of the current positions that consider necessary to adopt a reductionist approach to human behaviour, it has sometimes been taken for granted that a scientific view of free will should be of a neuroscientific kind. However, although there are phenomena which arise from physical events, they cannot be described solely in physical terms.<\/p>\n

Beginning with the analysis of the concept of freedom, the course will address some of the major issues related to free will, and then focus on Freud\u2019s proposal. Leaving behind radical materialism, which tends to relate all aspects of the human mind to the brain, Freud’s theory shows that it is possible to be free within a deterministic framework, provided that ways to increase one’s own free will are found.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Concise Programme” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\n