Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

Makari, George

ISBN 10: 0715637592 / ISBN 13: 9780715637593

Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2008

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First Edition (London, 2008). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. Light tanning to the text block. Unclipped dust jacket has shelf wear to the spine ends and corners, with a very small area of rubbing-wear to the spine bottom back edge, else minor edge wear only. Quarter black boards with grey paper sides, bright silver-gilt titling to the spine. Bump to front top corner, else clean and fine. viii, 613pp. Illustrated. (A definitive and much-praised history of the psychonanalytic movement: "by far the best-informed history of psychoanalysis" - Harold Bloom; "a marvelous history" - Jonathan Lear.).

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• Titolo: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
• Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0715637592
• ISBN 13: 9780715637593
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Makari answers two fundamental questions: How did Freudian theory come together as a body of ideas, and how did these ideas attract followers who spread this model of the mind throughout the West? Makari contextualises Freud's early psychological work amid the great changes occurring in late-19th century European science, philosophy, and medicine, showing how Freud was a creative, inter-disciplinary synthesizer whose immersion in pre-existing domains of study led to the creation of Freudian Theory.He looks at how Freud's followers built a heterogeneous movement in the years leading to 1914, at the growth of the movement, and its subsequent collapse with the departures of Bleuler, Jung, and Adler. Finally, Makari examines the critical, but neglected, Weimar period, when there was an attempt to rebuild a more pluralistic psychoanalytic community, a reformation that resulted in psychoanalysis's broader theoretical reach and greater acceptance across the Western world outside Europe, where the rise of fascism led to the destruction of psychoanalysis and the culture that once sustained it." Revolution in Mind" stands alone as the first historical work to seriously study the central dilemmas that defined, organised, and disrupted this would-be science of the psyche during its formation.