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Within the large and growing family of psychoanalytic ideas, metapsy-chology has recently—perhaps always—been something of an awkward stepchild. Radically revised and held but lightly by Freud in his lifetime, its other, more worldly cousins—clinical theory, technique, philosophy of analysis—have more recently flourished. In this most recent of several books, Jon Mills offers a passionate attempt to advance the meta-psychology of psychoanalysis. This is not only a worthwhile endeavor for analytic ideas, but also, in focusing as he does on providing an account of the origins and structure of unconscious thought, Mills proposes a welcome amendment to recent trends that point analysis away from the unconscious and toward themes that already have the full attention of related disciplines.
Origins does not stand alone, but forms part of a program that Mills has been developing in order to bring philosophical ideas, particularly Hegelian thought, into currency with psychoanalysis. Amongst several previous works, Mills has edited a collection of essays on Freud's metapsychology1