The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

By Ernest Gellner and Jose Brunner Ernest Gellner

Book Overview

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"