1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815080003321

Autore

Fuller Robert C. <1952->

Titolo

Americans and the unconscious / / Robert C. Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1986

ISBN

1-280-53322-6

0-19-976328-3

1-4416-3678-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Disciplina

150.973

Soggetti

Subconsciousness - Philosophy

Psychology and religion - United States - History

Psychology - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One. The Psyche as Symbol: Theological Anticipations""; ""Chapter Two. The Unconscious Discovered: The Mesmerists' Legacy""; ""Chapter Three. Science Appropriates the Unconscious: The Birth of Academic Psychology""; ""Chapter Four. Psychology, Religion, and the Unconscious: The Jamesian Synthesis""; ""Chapter Five. Assimilation and Accommodation: American Interpretations of Psychoanalysis""; ""Chapter Six. Excising the Psyche: American Behaviorism""; ""Chapter Seven. Rediscovering the Unconscious: Humanistic Psychology"" ""Chapter Eight. The Apotheosis: The Unconscious in Popular Psychology"" ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The author examines the symbolic role of the unconscious in American psychology, and shows that in America, theories of the unconscious have embodied specifically religious assumptions and aspirations.