4 papers in the library · publishing 2017-2026
International Journal of Jungian Studies October 1, 2026 Jon Mills
Abstract In Ryan Holsapple’s (2026) response to my critique (Mills, 2026) of his earlier work (Holsapple, 2025), he takes an entirely different line of argument and direction from his earlier claims that (1) the universe is conscious and (2) populated with (immaterial) souls emanating from a (3) grand Universal Spirit that serves as the godhead of the cosmos itself. Here I wish to take up a...
International Journal of Jungian Studies March 25, 2026 Jon Mills
Abstract It has been fashionable in recent times to posit an ontology of consciousness that saturates all features of the universe and is the organizational ground of the cosmos itself. Against current trends in the philosophy of mind that adopt a return to panpsychism, metaphysical attempts to revitalize and rehabilitate a Neoplatonic paradigm of Oneness, and neo-Jungian perspectives that...
March 2, 2022 Jon Mills
This collection of chapters in this volume is both diverse and weighty, tackling the mind-body problem (MBP) from sundry and nuanced perspectives with competing agendas, both complementary and critical. The contributors consider arguments from Freudian and post-classical revisionist psychoanalytic theory, Jungian, Lacanian, and Winnicottian thought, neuropsychoanalysis, mentalization theory,...
May 12, 2017 Dan Merkur, Jon Mills
C. G. Jung pioneered the integration of psychoanalysis with spirituality, and the current Zeitgeist has much to learn from both his successes and his failures. In his view, the general field of normal psychology included ethics, aesthetics and, of keenest interest to himself, spirituality. Jung frequently remarked that Freud focused psychoanalysis exclusively on medical concerns, which is to...