Psychoanalysis at the Limit

Jon Mills is a psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst in private practice; President of the Section on Psychoanalysis, Canadian Psychological Association; and Senior Faculty at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Toronto. He is the author of The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysisand the editor of Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press.

"…a noteworthy book that bases psychoanalysis's scientific status on philosophical considerations." — Psychologist-Psychoanalyst"The scholarship is first rate—a delightful read." — David E. Shaner, coauthor of Science and Comparative Philosophy: Introducing Yuasa Yasuo

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Role of Being and Experience in Freud's Unconscious Ontology M. Guy Thompson 2. Formulating Unconscious Experience: From Freud to Binswanger and Sullivan Roger Frie 3. Truth, Mind, and Objectivity Marcia Cavell 4. Freud and Searle on the Ontology of the Unconscious David Livingstone Smith 5. Paranoiac EpistemeJon Mills 6. From Myth to Metaphysics: Freud and Wittgenstein as Philosophical Thinkers James C. Edwards 7. The Hermeneutic Versus the Scientific Conception of Psychoanalysis Adolf Grunbaum 8. The Possibility of a Scientific Psychoanalysis Joseph Margolis 9. Incompleteness and Experimental Untestability in Psychoanalysis Donald Levy List of Contributors Index