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

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9781032306261
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 150.195
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 1160g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 24mm