Psyche, Culture, World - Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Mills, Jon (Adelphi University) Mills, Jon (University of Essex Mills
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032306261
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230626-1
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis