Psychoanalysis And The Mind-Body Problem

<P><STRONG>Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book</STRONG></P><P>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.</P><P>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.</P><I><P>Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem</I> will be of interest to psychoanalysts, philosophers, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, academics, and those generally int