Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a Canadian philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is an honorary professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and is on faculty in the postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Adelphi University, and the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. Daniel Burston, PhD, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and the author of numerous books and journal articles on psychoanalysis and critical theory. His most recent book is titled Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology: Jung, Politics and Culture (Routledge, 2021).

Preface 1. Psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School 2. Communism and Ambivalence: Freud, Marxism, and Aggression 3. Recapitulation and the Vicissitudes of Progress, from Freud to the Frankfurt School: “The Germ of the Regression” 4. Analytical Psychology and the Dialectic of Enlightment 5. Dysrecognition and Pathos 6. Critical Theory and Anti-Semitiism: Implications for Politics, Education, and Psychoanalysis 7. Critical Theory, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, and Anti-Semitism 8. The Evolutionary Anthropology of Erich Fromm: The Frankfurt School, Second Nature, and the Existential Crises of Consciousness 9. Colonizing the American Psyche: Virtue and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism 10. No Sex Without Coffee: The One Nature and its Superstructures: Elements of Freudian Materialism 11. Shrinking Vistas: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Postmodern Mire 12. Mapping the White Unconscious: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies, and Psychoanalysis 13. Critical Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis