The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

By Ernest Gellner

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810113708

ISBN13:9780810113701

Release Date:August 1996

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:241 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Clinical Psychology Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Internal Medicine Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Medicine Psychoanalysis Psychology Psychology & Counseling

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