Psyche, Culture, World

Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-30625-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.