Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)

This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially through the integration of myth into the dialectic. Weaving a fascinating narrative that ‘thinks with’ the complex encounters of theorists from Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James to Alfred North Whitehead, C. G. Jung, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, this book uniquely performs the convergence of continental philosophy, pragmatism, depth psychology, and constructivist ‘postmodern’ theory as a complement to the trajectory culminating in Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. This is an important book for professionals and academics working across the humanities and social sciences, particularly for continental theorists and depth psychologists interested in the construction of a novel epoch after the modern.

Grant Maxwell is an editor of the Archai journal and he holds a PhD from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is the author of multiple books including The Dynamics of Transformation: Tracing an Emerging World View, and he has written for Deleuze and Guattari Studies, the American Philosophical Association blog, American Songwriter magazine, and the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.