Psyche, culture, world : excursions in existentialism and psychoanalytic philosophy / Jon Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Jon, 1964- author.

Series:

Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Existential psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Endorsements

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Prolegomenon: Towards a Psychology of Existence

Thematic Overview

Psychic Existence

Evil, Pathos, God

Myth, Hermeneutics, and Science

Truth, Causality, and Fate

Note

About the Texts

Chapter 1: On the Origins of Psychic Reality

Conceptualizing the Psyche

The Dialectics of Unconscious Experience

Process Psychology

Approaching the "Genesis Problem

Where It all Begins: The Transmogrification of the Drives

Arkhē

The Ego and the Abyss

Notes

References

Chapter 2: Psyche as Inner Contradiction

Our Divided Nature Within

On the Non-Contradiction of Contradiction

On the Dialectic

Contradiction as Repetition Compulsion

On the Tension of Opposites

Coda

Chapter 3: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis: From Antiquity to Postmodernism

Chapter 4: The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis

Dasein and Fallenness

Dasein in Bad Faith

The False Self

The Call of Conscience

Concluding Reflections

Chapter 5: Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge

Prolegomena to Lacan's System: The Relation between Knowledge and Paranoia

Three Realms of Being

Through the Looking Glass

The Other as Persecutory

Aggressivity and Identification

The De-Structure of Language

The Desire Not to Know

The Case of Mrs. Z

The Subject of the Other

Chapter 6: The Essence of Evil

What is Evil?

Radical Evil

The Relativity of Evil

On Universality

On the Question of Essence

The Normativity of Evil

Evil as Appearance

The Ethics of Evil

Institutionalization

The Evil Within

Chapter 7: Recognition and Pathos

Hegel and Jung.

The Need to be Acknowledged

From the Psychological to the Social

Unconscious Politics

The Ontology of Prejudice

A World without Recognition

Suffering and Society

Chapter 8: God: The Invention of an Idea

Proof and Negation

God as Failed Hypothesis

The Logical Impossibility of God

The Problem of Infinite Regress

Chapter 9: Towards a Theory of Myth

On the Signification of Myth

Towards a Theoretic Typology of Myth

Segal on Myth

From Explanandum to Explanans

The Truth of Myth and the Myth of Truth

The Essence of Myth

Chapter 10: Deconstructing Hermes: A Critique of the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Turn in Psychoanalysis

Chapter 11: Psychoanalysis and the Ideologies of Science

Science as Master Discourse

The Languages of Psychoanalysis

Theoretical Myopia in the Age of the Brain

In Defense of Theory

On Explication in Psychoanalysis and Operationalization in Science

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Chapter 12: Truth

The Concept of Truth and its Relevance to Psychoanalysis

Towards a Metatheory of Truth

Truth as Unconcealment

Clinical Illustration

The Dialectics of Truth

Chapter 13: Freedom and Determinism

The Freedom versus Determinism Binary

Freud on Free Will

Psychic Determinism as Teleology

Unconscious Agency

The Essence of Human Freedom

Chapter 14: Civilization and its Fate

The Positive Significance of the Negative

Psychoanalytic Anthropology

The End of the World

Prejudice and Valuation

The Logic of the Dialectic

The Infinite Progress of the Infinite Regress

Living in the End Times

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-73568-0

1-00-330595-4

1-003-30595-4

1-000-73564-8

9781003305958

OCLC:

1340645787