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Secrets of the soul, a social and cultural history of psychoanalysis, Eli Zaretsky

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Secrets of the soul, a social and cultural history of psychoanalysis, Eli Zaretsky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-413) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Secrets of the soul

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

53932648

Responsibility statement

Eli Zaretsky

Sub title

a social and cultural history of psychoanalysis

Summary

Annotation, First to synthesize the vast international history and heritage of psychoanalysis, this hugely ambitious book details one of the most influential movements of the 20th century

Table Of Contents

Introduction : the ambiguous legacy of psychoanalysis -- The personal unconscious -- Gender, sexuality, and personal life -- Absorption and marginality -- From paternal authority to narcissism -- The Great War and the Bolshevik Revolution -- Fordism, Freudianism, and modernity -- Autonomy and resistance -- The turn toward the mother -- Fascism and the destruction of classical European analysis -- The mother-infant relationship and the postwar welfare state -- Charisma or rationalization? : U.S. psychoanalysis in the epoch of the Cold War -- The 1960s, post-Fordism, and the culture of narcissism -- Epilogue : psychoanalysis in our time

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