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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465086703321

Titolo

Sexual revolutions : psychoanalysis, history and the father / / edited by Gottfried Heuer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9786613041890

0-203-83471-2

1-283-04189-8

1-136-85140-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeuerGottfried <1944->

Disciplina

150.19/52092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Jungian psychology

Psychology, Pathological

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. History -- pt. 2. Fathers and sons -- pt. 3. Psychoanalysis, literature and sociology -- pt. 4. Sexual revolutions.

Sommario/riassunto

The ideas of psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877-1920) have had a seminal influence on the development of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice and yet his work has been largely overlooked. For Freud, he was one of only two analysts 'capable of making an original contribution' (Jung was the other), and Jung called Gross 'my twin brother' in the course of their mutual analysis. This is a major interdisciplinary enquiry into the history, nature and plausibility of the idea of a 'sexual revolution', drawing also on the related fields of history, law, criminology, literature, sociology