Psychoanalytic Movement

The Cunning of Unreason

AvErnest Gellner

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill. Gellner approaches the question as a sociologist and attains a broad perspective on the ideas of the psychoanalytic movement as a system of cultural beliefs.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-08-30
Mått:152 x 226 x 19 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rethinking Theory
Antal sidor:241
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810113701

Utforska kategorier

Freudiansk psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

His first book, Words and Things (1958) prompted a leader in The Times and a month-long correspondence on its letters page over his attack on linguistic philosophy. As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics for 22 years, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for eight, and finally as head of the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague, Gellner fought all his life—in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism—against what he saw as closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, relativism, and the dictatorship of the free market.