Psyche Culture World

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>