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Psychology General

Origins

On the Genesis of Psychic Reality

by (author) Jon Mills

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2012
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773540200
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773536807
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773583474
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $95.00

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In 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.

About the author

Jon Mills is a philosopher, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author of numerous books, including The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis.

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