Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book
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.
Given that disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences to
neuroscience cannot agree upon the nature of consciousness--from what
constitutes psychic reality to mental properties, psychoanalysis has a
unique perspective that is largely ignored by mainstream paradigms. This
book provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in
various psychoanalytic schools of thought, including philosophical and
metapsychological points of view.
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem will be of interest to
psychoanalysts, philosophers, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists,
academics, and those generally interested in the humanities, cognitive
science, and the philosophy of mind.