Jon Mills
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3832677 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jon Mills |
| PRENOMES | Jon |
| SOBRENOME | Mills |
| ASSINATURA | MILLS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Adler |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3673-0884 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Critique of Antiracist Ideology
Jung on Transcendence
Throughout this essay the author analyzes the concept of transcendence in Jung’s theoretical corpus with a focus on its philosophical parameters and therapeutic efficacy in promoting a category of value. Although Jung did not precisely define the terms transcendence, transcendent, and transcendental, it is necessary to tease out these features in order to illuminate the varieties of transcendence in Jung’s thought. Distinctions are made between t…
The Black Foe
The ontology of death is universal, hence archetypal. Nowhere do we witness any organic creature escape its talons. Analytical psychology has had an intimate relationship to death for the simple fact that it contemplates the soul, the numinous, and an afterlife. From Hegel to Heidegger, Freud and Jung, death was an existential force that sustained and transformed life, the positive significance of the negative. Rather than merely a destructive ph…
Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
"Critical Theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings Critical Theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the psychoanalytic movement and covers a broad range of topics in contemporary society that revisit the Frankfurt School and its contributions to psychoanalytic social critique"
Excursions in countertransference
This article chronicles an extended psychoanalytic treatment of a bipolar gay man who suffered from unremitting suicidal depression, mania, paranoid psychosis, and psychic fragmentation due to severe complex trauma and developmental deficits in attachment and cohesive self-structure. Following his initial hospitalization within an inpatient psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt, I present his course of treatment in outpatient practice over…
The Doomsday Argument Reconsidered
In our current unstable world, nuclear warfare, climate crises, and techno nihilism are three perilous clouds hovering over an anxious humanity. In this article I examine our current state of affairs with regard to the imminent risk of nuclear holocaust, rapid climate emergencies destroying the planet, and the cultural and political consequences of emerging technologies on the fate of civilization. In the wake of innumerable existential threats t…
Why theory is not myth
James Cresswell provides a thoughtful critique of my essay on a theory of myth (Mills) with a specific focus on the nature of theorizing that challenges the dogma of empirical frames of reference, concluding that scientific theories themselves are contemporary myths. Insofar as myth is an attempt to provide a narrative or discourse about phenomena, Cresswell's argument could apply to any theory. But he takes this point further: theory is synonymo…
Toward a theory of myth
Why do we need a theory of myth? Because no systematic theory exists, let alone a consensus. What I am particularly interested in addressing are not specific theories of myth, or specific myths themselves, but rather what constitutes a good theory. In particular, throughout our investigation I hope to illuminate what a proper theory of myth would be expected to offer in terms of its descriptive and explanatory power, coherency, generality, meanin…
Relational polemics
Of Heresy and Humanism
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
Critical Theory and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives share many compatibilities in offering a constructive critique of society. Psychoanalysis teaches us that whatever values and ideals societies adopt, they are always mediated through unconscious psychic processes that condition the collective in both positive and negative ways, and in terms of relations of recognition and patterns of social justice. Contemporary critical theory may bene…
Dysrecognition and social pathology
The myth of the collective unconscious
This essay challenges the most basic tenet of Jung's analytical psychology, namely, the existence of the collective unconscious. Despite the fact that there are purported to be universal processes and ontological features of mind throughout all psychoanalytical schools of thought, Jung's is unique in the history of psychoanalytic ideas for positing a supraordinate, autonomous transpersonal psyche that remains the source, ground, and wellspring fr…
Psychoanalysis and the philosophical turn
Lacan on Psychosis
Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge
CONSERVATIVE AND RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOANALYTIC KNOWLEDGE: THE FASCINATED AND THE DISENCHANTED. By Aner Govrin. London: Routledge, 2016. 255 pp.In this groundbreaking and controversial book
Transsexuality as Aesthetic Experience
Oren Gozlan is one of the most original thinkers in psychoanalysis today. In this very succinct and well-written text, he challenges the antiquated and prejudiced historical views of transsexuality perpetrated by the field of psychoanalysis and recasts the questions of sexuality, gender, identity, and authenticity by reexamining the puzzlement and aesthetics of desire. As a practicing analyst and psychologist who treats preoperative transsexuals …
Inventing God
Ethics of Evil
Global land cover mapping at 30 m resolution
Global Land Cover (GLC) information is fundamental for environmental change studies, land resource management, sustainable development, and many other societal benefits. Although GLC data exists at spatial resolutions of 300 m and 1000 m, a 30 m resolution mapping approach is now a feasible option for the next generation of GLC products. Since most significant human impacts on the land system can be captured at this scale, a number of researchers…
On Meant Objects, Unconscious Intentionality, and Time
Husserl's phenomenology of time-consciousness is analyzed in the context of Cecile Tougas's views presented in her book The Phenomena of Awareness. Tougas provides a thoughtful account of the intentional subject as tending toward meant objects and their awareness. By introducing the notion of the “transfinite whole,” she further establishes a metaphysical link between experiential phenomena and the unconscious. The relationship between material e…
Humanizing Evil
Jung as philosopher
In a previous essay offering an exegesis of Jung's metaphysics, I concluded that his position on the archetypes emphasizes basic constitutional patterns that manifest as imago, thought, affect, fantasy, and behavior inherent in all forms of human psychic life ( bios ) that are genetically transmitted yet realized on different stratifications of psychical order, including mystical properties emanating from supernatural origins. Mark Saban and Robe…
Truth
What exactly do we mean by truth? Although the concept is nebulous across the array of theoretical perspectives in psychoanalysis, it is fundamental to all discourses. Is psychoanalysis in a position to offer a theory of truth despite the fact that at present it has no explicit, formal theory regarding the matter? A general metatheory is proposed here that allows for discrete categories and instantiations of truth as metacontextual appearance. In…
Freedom and determinism
The question, scope, and meaning of human freedom have been a philosophical preoccupation since antiquity. The question of freedom is juxtaposed to its antithesis, namely, determinism, or more specifically, causation. One cannot sufficiently address the question of freedom without attending to the question of determinism because this antipode is dialectically constituted; hence they are mutually implicative constructs. Psychoanalysis’ single cont…
A Note on Family Acceptance Involving Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships
Perceptions of family acceptance concerning interracial friendships and romantic relationships were investigated in a group of 142 undergraduates. The Assessment Scale of Interracial Relationships (ASIR) was constructed by the authors and administered to 68 men and 74 women recruited from introductory psychology courses. Results showed that both men and women held negative attitudes toward interracial relationships, although Black students held m…
A Critique of Antiracist Ideology
Truth
What exactly do we mean by truth? Although the concept is nebulous across the array of theoretical perspectives in psychoanalysis, it is fundamental to all discourses. Is psychoanalysis in a position to offer a theory of truth despite the fact that at present it has no explicit, formal theory regarding the matter? A general metatheory is proposed here that allows for discrete categories and instantiations of truth as metacontextual appearance. In…
Toward a theory of myth
Why do we need a theory of myth? Because no systematic theory exists, let alone a consensus. What I am particularly interested in addressing are not specific theories of myth, or specific myths themselves, but rather what constitutes a good theory. In particular, throughout our investigation I hope to illuminate what a proper theory of myth would be expected to offer in terms of its descriptive and explanatory power, coherency, generality, meanin…
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
Critical Theory and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives share many compatibilities in offering a constructive critique of society. Psychoanalysis teaches us that whatever values and ideals societies adopt, they are always mediated through unconscious psychic processes that condition the collective in both positive and negative ways, and in terms of relations of recognition and patterns of social justice. Contemporary critical theory may bene…
The myth of the collective unconscious
This essay challenges the most basic tenet of Jung's analytical psychology, namely, the existence of the collective unconscious. Despite the fact that there are purported to be universal processes and ontological features of mind throughout all psychoanalytical schools of thought, Jung's is unique in the history of psychoanalytic ideas for positing a supraordinate, autonomous transpersonal psyche that remains the source, ground, and wellspring fr…
Oral Character and Attitudes and Behavior Related to Food and Eating
Freudian theory predicts that adult personality characteristics and behavior will reflect unresolved conflicts from early developmental stages. In this study, a card from the Blum's Blacky test was used as a projective measure of oral conflict with 35 male and 61 female college students. The presence of such conflict was significantly associated with deviations from norms for body weight, greater variability in adult body weight, rating food as i…
Interpersonal Dependency and Locus of Control as Personality Correlates among Adult Male Alcoholics Undergoing Residential Treatment
The Interpersonal Dependency Inventory and the I-E Control Scale were administered to 22 male alcoholics in residential treatment. Contrary to prediction, subjects had normal dependency scores and external locus of control orientation. These findings contradict currently held assumptions about levels of dependence and the directionality of control orientation among inpatient alcoholics. Subjects were further examined for the influence of previous…
Locus of Control Orientation of Obese Adolescent Girls and Children of Alcoholics in Outpatient Treatment
Obese adolescents and children of alcoholics have been reported to exhibit an external locus of control orientation. Due to the perceived loss of control over personal eating behavior versus limited control over environmental circumstances, it was believed that obese adolescent girls would show greater externality than children of alcoholics. Rotter's I-E Scale was administered to 19 moderately obese adolescent girls and 10 girls who were childre…
Interpersonal Dependency in Alcoholic and Obese Men
While psychological conflict about dependency needs of alcoholic and obese persons has been widely observed, few studies have examined differences in dependency characteristics between these clinical groups. The Interpersonal Dependency Inventory was administered to 22 alcoholic and 8 morbidly obese men in intensive treatment for alcohol and obesity. The original hypothesis that alcoholic and obese men would show similar dependency needs was supp…
On self-forgiveness and moral self-representation
The morality of promising made in good faith
A Note on Family Acceptance Involving Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships
Perceptions of family acceptance concerning interracial friendships and romantic relationships were investigated in a group of 142 undergraduates. The Assessment Scale of Interracial Relationships (ASIR) was constructed by the authors and administered to 68 men and 74 women recruited from introductory psychology courses. Results showed that both men and women held negative attitudes toward interracial relationships, although Black students held m…
Hegel on the Unconscious Abyss
A comparison of the semantic values of middle cornish luf and dorn with modern english hand and fist
George David Miller
Prejudice and its Vicissitudes
Freud Among the Philosophers. The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its Philosophical Critics
Unconscious Abyss, The
Reexamining the psychoanalytic corpse
Whitehead's Unconscious Ontology
Alfred North Whitehead's process metaphysics remain largely unknown to psychology despite his treatise on human consciousness, perception and the nature of the soul. What is of greater significance is that his process reality is governed by unconscious forces that form the a priori foundation for all modes of human experience to manifest. In this article, I attempt to show how Whitehead's unconscious ontology has direct implications for the way i…
Lacan on paranoiac knowledge
Structuralization, borderlineopathy, and schizoid phenomena
Clarifications on Trieb
Structuralization, Trauma, and Attachment
A Critique of Relational Psychoanalysis
Treating Attachment Pathology
Reflections on the death drive
A response to my critics
The immorality of the home office
A response to Grünbaum's refutation of psychoanalysis
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