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The Ωmega Principle
The ontology of death is universal, hence archetypal. Nowhere do we witness any organic creature escape its talons. From Hegel to Heidegger, Freud, and Jung, death was an existential force that sustained and transformed life, the positive significance of the negative. Rather than merely a destructive phenomenon, death informs Being, the power of nothingness that dialectically drives life. In this presentation, I will introduce the notion of what I call the omega principle, the psychological orientation and trajectory of our being towards death.

Presenter Bio
Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, NY; and Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, Canada. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, he is the author and/or editor of 30 books in psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies including Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his Critics (Routledge, 2020); Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality (Routledge, 2017); Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics (Routledge, 2014); Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2012); Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010); Treating Attachment Pathology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005); The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis (State University of New York Press, 2002); and The Ontology of Prejudice (Rodopi, 1997). In 2015 he was given the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Psychological Association.