Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

ISBN-13: 9780367548285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 384 str.

Jon Mills

Opis

In this volume, internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind, unconscious structure, mental properties, qualia, and the contours of consciousness.

Spis treści

List of Contributors  Introduction: Minding the Body and the Embodied Mind  1. A Critique of Materialism  2. Notes Toward the Psychoanalytic Critique of Mind-Body Dualism  3. Freud's Views on Mental Causation  4. Developing a Metaphysical Foundation for Analytical Psychology  5. Lacan on Mind and Body  6. Self and the Experience of Interiority  7. The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness  8. Mentalizing from/to/with the Body  9. A Revised Psychoanalytical Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity  10. Unconscious Experience  11. The Plumbing of Political Economy: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Down the Toilet  12. The Dionysian Primate: Goethe, Nietzsche, Jung and Psychedelic Neuroscience  13. Creativity in Cyborgs: Mind, Body and Technology  14. The Embodied Analyst: The Mind-Body Impact of Sustained Clinical Practice

O autorze

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA; Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK; 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 30 books in philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and cultural studies.