My recent reading includes PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM (2022), an anthology edited by Jon Mills. This is not one of those several-conflicting-points-of-view anthologies. Mills himself and the various authors involved all seem to share the point of view, though they approach it from different directions. Their contention, in a few words, is that psychoanalysis -- which these authors associate almost entirely with the work of Sigmund Freud and his most devoted followers -- implies the ontological position known as "dual-aspect monism." Specifically, the libidinous drive at the heart of Freudianism is neither material nor mental. It is a neutral sort of stuff, developed out of the body (which has the natural-selection defined drives to survive and to reproduce) but not simply a description of the body, yet again not mental stuff in a traditional sense of the term either. One way to think about the Freudian notion of "the unconscious" is pre...