Origins by Jon Mills
By Categories: Books

The question of what constitutes psychic reality has been of interest to philosophers and psychologists for as long as humans have thought about the mind. In Origins, Jon Mills presents a provocative challenge to contemporary theories of the difference between the mind and body in neuroscience. By re-examining our understanding of the unconscious, he explains the birth of the psyche and provides a detailed account of the ways in which subjectivity is formed.

In the first comprehensive work to articulate a psychoanalytic metaphysics based on process thought, the author uses dialectical logic to show how the nature and structure of mental life is constituted. Arguing that ego development is produced not only by consciousness but also evolves from unconscious genesis, he makes the controversial claim that an unconscious semiotics serves as the template for language and all meaning structures. A thought-provoking account of idealism, Origins confronts the limitations of materialism and empiricism while salvaging the roles of agency and freedom that have been neglected by the biological sciences.

Jon Mills is a philosopher, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author of numerous books, including The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Table of Contents and Introduction to Jon Mill’s book Origins.

Part 2 of the World War II Panel
By Categories: Audio/Video


On December 5, 1996, four World-War II combat veterans who are also psychoanalysts at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute got together for a very special Veteran’s Day presentation. Each of the four shared stories of their actual combat experience on the front lines during Worls War II. In these insightful memoirs, many personal, heroic, and painful memories were shared with the audience, and a fascinating and engaging Q & A session followed the program. The four analysts involved were M.Donald Coleman (also moderator), Howard Schlossman, Murray Nadelman, and Eugene Kaplan. This program captures some truly historic memories and is quite moving. (This post is the second part of a 2 part series. To hear Part 1, Click Here)

Click Below to Listen to: Part 1 of the Question-and-Answer period with the World War II panel.

Click Below to Listen to: Part 2 of the Question-and-Answer period with the World War II panel

Click Below to Listen To: Part 3 of the Question-and-Answer period with the World War II panel

Analysts on the Front Lines: Four WW-II Veterans Recall their Combat Experience (Part 1)
By Categories: Audio/Video, NYPSI Centenary 1911-2011

On December 5, 1996, four World-War II combat veterans who are also psychoanalysts at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute got together for a very special Veteran’s Day presentation. Each of the four shared stories of their actual combat experience on the front lines during Worls War II. In these insightful memoirs, many personal, heroic, and painful memories were shared with the audience, and a fascinating and engaging Q & A session followed the program. The four analysts involved were M.Donald Coleman (also moderator), Howard Schlossman, Murray Nadelman, and Eugene Kaplan. This program captures some truly historic memories and is quite moving. (This post is part 1 of a 2 part series with Eugene Kaplan’s presentation and the question-and-answer session which follows appearing in a later post.)

Click Below to Listen to: The introduction to the panel and M. Donald Coleman’s presentation:

Click Below to Listen To: Part 1 of Howard Schlossman’s presentation:

Click Below to Listen To: Part 2 of Howard Schlossman’s presentation:

Click Below to Listen to: Murray Nadelman’s presentation: