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Autore |
Pavon Cuellar David |
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Marxism and psychoanalysis : in or against psychology? / / David Pavon-Cuellar ; translated by Paul Kersey and David Pavon-Cuellar |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-68954-5 |
1-317-42445-X |
1-317-42446-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Collana |
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Concepts for critical psychology: disciplinary boundaries re-thought |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Communism and psychoanalysis |
Communism and psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: in or against psychology? -- Marxian psychologies -- Marx and Freud -- From psychoanalysis to psychologisation -- Psychology and its critique in Marxism -- Marxist psychologies -- Marxism, psychoanalysis and critique of psychology -- Towards a critical metapsychology -- Critique as praxis. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is screened through the twin dynamics of Marxism and psychoanalysis. David Pavón-Cuéllar asks to what extent the terms, concerns and goals of psychology reflect, in fact, the dominant bourgeois ideology that has allowed it to flourish. The book charts a gradual psychologization within society and culture dating from the nineteenth century, and examines how the tacit ideals within mainstream psychology - creating good citizens or productive workers - sit uneasily against Marx and Freud's ambitions of revealing fault-lines and contradictions within individualist and consumer-oriented structures. The positivist aspiration of psychology to become a natural science has been the source of extensive debate, |
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