The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

Ernest Gellner

The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Country
United States
Published
12 August 1996
Pages
241
ISBN
9780810113701

The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

Ernest Gellner

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.

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