Description: Continental philosophers examine Freud's metapsychology.
Brief description: Jon Mills is a psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst in private practice; President of the Section on Psychoanalysis, Canadian Psychological Association; and Senior Faculty at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Toronto. He is the author of The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysisand the editor of Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Mills is very much alive in contemporary psychoanalysis ... his rereading of Freud and concern regarding false dichotomies and Freud's location in contemporary practice deserves to be taken seriously by any practitioner attracted to Freud's project and the contemporary scene." - Psychologist-Psychoanalyst
"This timely book makes a profoundly significant contribution to research concerning the philosophical implications of Freud's thought. The rich array of perspectives by leading scholars will reinvigorate intellectual discourse in Freud studies for years to come. This is an extraordinary undertaking that is long overdue." - David Pettigrew, cotranslator of The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan