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Record Nr.

UNISA996205988103316

Autore

Gellner Ernest

Titolo

The psychoanalytic movement [[electronic resource] ] : the cunning of unreason / / Ernest Gellner ; foreword by José Brunner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2003

ISBN

1-281-31045-X

9786611310455

0-470-70690-2

0-470-77355-3

0-470-77530-0

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5/09

150.19509

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis - History

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 (p. [205]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Back to nature -- The plague -- The Pirandello effect -- On the rack -- The cunning broker -- Reality regained -- The embourgoisement of the psyche -- Anatomy of a faith -- The bounds of science -- La thérapie imaginaire.

Sommario/riassunto

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 makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy. Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central