Psyche, Culture, World

Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy

Jon Mills (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-30626-1 (ISBN)

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Across the array of topics explored in this comprehensive volume, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues for a fundamental return to the question and meaning of existence. Drawing on the traditions of German Idealism, existentialism, and onto-phenomenology, he offers a rich tapestry of insight and critique into the foundations of psyche, human nature, and society.

As a philosophy of mind and culture, psychoanalysis offers us a promising perspective to reengage our being in the world in meaningful ways that illuminate human existence, the mysteriousness of unconscious processes, our relation to transcendence, ethical obligations towards social collectives, and the wonder of logos for our present-day consciousness. After examining the unconscious origins of psychic reality and the contradictory nature of our internal lives, Mills examines the scope of existentialism from antiquity to postmodernism, the question of authenticity, paranoiac epistemology, the essence of evil, dysrecognition and social pathology, belief in God, myth, the ideologies of science, hermeneutics, truth, freedom and determinism, and the fate of civilization in relation to the pervasive forces that threaten our existence.

Psyche, Culture, World will be of interest to philosophers, psychoanalysts, psychologists, academics, and students in the arts and humanities, cultural studies, anthropology, myth, psychology of religion, and psychotherapy.

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK; on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University and the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA; and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto, Canada. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, he is the author and/or editor of over 30 books in philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and cultural studies.

Prolegomenon: Towards a Psychology of Existence About the Texts 1. On the Origins of Psychic Reality 2. Psyche as Inner Contradiction 3. Existentialism and Psychoanalysis: From Antiquity to Postmodernism 4. The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis 5. Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge 6. The Essence of Evil 7. Recognition and Pathos 8. God: The Invention of an Idea 9. Towards a Theory of Myth 10. Deconstructing Hermes: A Critique of the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Turn in Psychoanalysis 11. Psychoanalysis and the Ideologies of Science 12. Truth 13. Freedom and Determinism 14. Civilization and its Fate

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1160 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-30626-2 / 1032306262
ISBN-13	978-1-032-30626-1 / 9781032306261
Zustand	Neuware