Jon Mills 
The Unconscious Abyss [PDF ebook] 
Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

Preface

A Note on the Texts

Introduction

Unconsciousness and the Unconscious
Unconscious Spirit and the Feeling Soul
The Intelligence of the Abyss
The Dialectical Structure of the Unconscious
Hegels ‘Theory of Psychopathology
Anticipating the Abyss

1. Retracing the Ungrund

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

2. Unconscious Spirit

On the Structures 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

3. Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology

Prolegomena to Hegel’s Psychology
The Structure of Mind
Hegel’s Theory of Consciousness
Psychological Spirit
Comparisons with Psychoanalysis
The Dawn of Decay

4. The Dialectic of Desire

Self-Consciousness Revisited
Desire and Drive
The Throes of Recognition
Neurotic Spirit
Toward the Abnormal

5. Abnormal Spirit

The Ontology of Madness
The Phenomenology of Suffering
The Psychotic Core
The Sick Soul
Unhappy Unconsciousness
Symbiosis and the Absolute

6. Implications for Psychoanalysis: Toward Process Psychology

If Freud Read Hegel
Openings to Mutual Recognition
Toward Process Psychology
Hegel’s Dialectic and Process Psychoanalytic Thought
Dialectical Psychoanalysis

Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index

Jon Mills is a psychologist and a philosopher in private practice, Research Associate at the Research Institute at Lakeridge Health, and teaches at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Toronto. He is the coauthor (with Janusz A. Polanowski) of
The Ontology of Prejudice.