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.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Minding the Body and the Embodied Mind
1. A Critique of Materialism
Jon Mills
2. Notes Toward the Psychoanalytic Critique of Mind-Body Dualism
Barnaby B. Barratt
3. Freud’s Views on Mental Causation
Claudia Passos-Ferreira
4. Developing a Metaphysical Foundation for Analytical Psychology
Erik Goodwyn
5. Lacan on Mind and Body
Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot
6. Self and the Experience of Interiority
Jurandir Freire Costa
7. The ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness
Mark Solms
8. Mentalizing from/to/with the Body
Elliot Jurist
9. A Revised Psychoanalytical Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity
Anna Aragno
10. Unconscious Experience
Jon Mills
11. The Plumbing of Political Economy: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Down the Toilet
Adrian Johnston
12. The Dionysian Primate: Goethe, Nietzsche, Jung and Psychedelic Neuroscience
Gary Clark
13. Creativity in Cyborgs: Mind, Body and Technology: Plesnner’s Spatial Phenomenology as a Basis for a Jungian Metaphysics
Joeri Pacolet
14. The Embodied Analyst: The Mind-Body Impact of Sustained Clinical Practice
Alan Michael Karbelnig