The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason - Rilegato

Gellner, Ernest

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ISBN 10: 0631234128 ISBN 13: 9780631234128

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2002

Riassunto

How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement. In this landmark study Gellner argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy. In an Introduction to this new edition Jose Brunner expands on the central argument of The Psychoanalytic Movement. Placing Gellner′s work in the context of contemporary hostile critiques of Freud, Brunner argues that these two blatantly different thinkers might also be seen as kindred spirits.

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L'autore:

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at the London School of Economics from 1949 to 1984. In 1984 he became the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Gellner published a number of books with Blackwell, including Nations and Nationalism (1983).

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631234128
• ISBN 13: 9780631234128
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 256