The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason - Rilegato

Gellner, Ernest

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ISBN 10: 0810113694 ISBN 13: 9780810113695

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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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His first book, Words and Things (1958) prompted a leader in The Timesand 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.

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Book by Gellner Ernest

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• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810113694
• ISBN 13: 9780810113695
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 241