Psyche, Culture, World
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Psyche, Culture, World

Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy

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Psyche, Culture, World

Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000735680
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. Prolegomenon: Towards a Psychology of Existence
  9. About the Texts
  10. 1 On the Origins of Psychic Reality
  11. 2 Psyche as Inner Contradiction
  12. 3 Existentialism and Psychoanalysis: From Antiquity to Postmodernism
  13. 4 The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis
  14. 5 Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge
  15. 6 The Essence of Evil
  16. 7 Recognition and Pathos
  17. 8 God: The Invention of an Idea
  18. 9 Towards a Theory of Myth
  19. 10 Deconstructing Hermes: A Critique of the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Turn in Psychoanalysis
  20. 11 Psychoanalysis and the Ideologies of Science
  21. 12 Truth
  22. 13 Freedom and Determinism
  23. 14 Civilization and its Fate
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. About the Author
  26. Index