The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order

by J.C. Smith

This work offers an explanation of the development of human social order in psychoanalytic terms. It examines patriarchy, aiming to uncover its inner dynamics; offers a critique of the subordination of women by men; and maintains a commitment to existing social and psychological models without sacrificing one for the other. that the material conditions of life and human rationality are secondary. He believes that Western culture's male-dominated social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814779034
• ISBN13: 9780814779033
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 503 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.