Jon Mills

Psyche, Culture, World

Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781032306261
• ISBN-10: 1032306262
• Artikelnr.: 64360822

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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