Origins [electronic resource] : on the genesis of psychic reality / Jon Mills.
Mills, Jon, 1964-
2010
BF315 .M55 2010eb
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Title Origins [electronic resource] : on the genesis of psychic reality / Jon Mills.
Author Mills, Jon, 1964-
ISBN 0773536809
9780773536807
9780773583474 electronic book
Publication Details Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xi, 304 p. : ill.
Call Number BF315 .M55 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 154.2
Summary "Origins is an intriguing and ambitious work. Jon Mills wants to do no less than develop a new, dialectical psychology that will shake the assumptions of self-satisfied psychologists and philosophers. The controversial nature of this book is one of its signal strengths." John Lachs, Centennial Professor Of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University." "The question of what constitutes psychic reality has been of interest to philosophers and psychologists for as long as humans have thought about the mind. In Origins, Jon Mills presents a provocative challenge to contemporary theories about the difference between the mind and body. By re-examining our understanding of the unconscious, Mills explains the birth of the psyche and provides a detailed account of the ways in which subjectivity is formed." "The first comprehensive work to articulate a psychoanalytic metaphysics based on process thought, the author uses dialectical logic to show how the nature and structure of mental life is constituted. Arguing that ego development is produced not only by consciousness but also evolves from unconscious genesis, he makes the controversial claim that an unconscious semiotics serves as the template for language and all meaning structures." "A thought-provoking account of idealism, Origins confronts the limitations of materialism and empiricism while salvaging the roles of agency and freedom that have been neglected by the biological sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and indexes.
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Introduction : rethinking mind in the age of the brain
Axioms
Prolegomena to a system
Spacings of the abyss
Deciphering the "Genesis Problem" : on the origins of psychic reality
Mind as projective identification
Unconscious semiotics
Ego and the abyss.

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