The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

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Contents PREFACE ix A NOTE ON THE TEXTS xiii INTRODUCTION 1 Unconsciousness and the Unconscious Unconscious Spirit and the Feeling Soul The Intelligence of the Abyss The Dialectical Structure of the Unconscious Hegel’s Theory of Psychopathology Anticipating the Abyss One RETRACING THE UNGRUND 21 Historical Origins of the Abyss Boehme’s Influence on Hegel Hegel’s Neo-Platonic Sources The Spectra of Fichte Enters Schelling From the Ungrund to the Abyss Two UNCONSCIOUS SPIRIT 53 On the Structure of the Encyclopaedia Geist The Epigenesis of Unconscious Spirit The Anthropological Abyss Naturalized Spirit The Desirous Soul Sentience Unconscious Feeling The Actual Soul as Ego The Logic of the Unconscious Toward Psychological Spirit Three HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY 99 Prolegomena to Hegel’s Psychology The Structure of Mind Hegel’s Theory of Consciousness Psychological Spirit Comparisons with Psychoanalysis The Dawn of Decay Four THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE 135 Self-Consciousness Revisited Desire and Drive The Throes of Recognition Neurotic Spirit Toward the Abnormal Five ABNORMAL SPIRIT 159 The Ontology of Madness The Phenomenology of Suffering The Psychotic Core The Sick Soul Unhappy Unconsciousness Symbiosis and the Absolute Six IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: TOWARD PROCESS PSYCHOLOGY 187 If Freud Read Hegel Openings to Mutual Recognition Toward Process Psychology Hegel’s Dialectic and Process Psychoanalytic Thought Dialectical Psychoanalysis NOTES 203 BIBLIOGRAPHY 237 SUBJECT INDEX 253 AUTHOR INDEX 259 viii Contents ...