Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

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.

List of Contributors Introduction: Minding the Body and the Embodied Mind 1. A Critique of Materialism 2. Notes Toward the Psychoanalytic Critique of Mind-Body Dualism 3. Freud's Views on Mental Causation 4. Developing a Metaphysical Foundation for Analytical Psychology 5. Lacan on Mind and Body 6. Self and the Experience of Interiority 7. The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness 8. Mentalizing from/to/with the Body 9. A Revised Psychoanalytical Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity 10. Unconscious Experience 11. The Plumbing of Political Economy: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Down the Toilet 12. The Dionysian Primate: Goethe, Nietzsche, Jung and Psychedelic Neuroscience 13. Creativity in Cyborgs: Mind, Body and Technology 14. The Embodied Analyst: The Mind-Body Impact of Sustained Clinical Practice