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.
