The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

by Ernest Gellner

Book Overview

The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.

Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion. Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00DUAW9AG
• ISBN13: 9780631234135
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.4"