Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

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.

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.

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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.

Klappentext

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.

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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