https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Mills_(psychologist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_psychology
https://youtu.be/JfYcI_sCOZM?si=dNpVFmJckLBM3flB
Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy (2023)
Philosophy of the Unconscious
In his books, The Unconscious Abyss and Origins, Mills develops a psychoanalytic metaphysics called “dialectical psychoanalysis” or “process psychology” based on neo-Hegelian principles, which places the unconscious at the heart of all psychic activity.[11] He argues that the mind is ontologically constituted through unconscious genesis, and that subjectivity is conditioned a priori by unconscious agency, which is responsible for all forms of mental life to transpire,[22] including higher modes of consciousness, contrary to contemporary views in the philosophy of mind that place causal primacy on consciousness.[23] Rather than demote the mind to biological reductionism, unconscious processes are conceived as a series of psychic spacings that instantiate themselves through a multitude of schemata, which are the building blocks of psychic reality.[10] He makes the controversial claim that unconscious semiotics condition and underlie the structure and function of language, subjectivity, and social dynamics.[24]
- Mills, Jon (2002). The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis. Albany: SUNY Press.
- Mills, Jon (2010). Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
