How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill. Gellner approaches the question as a sociologist and attains a broad perspective on the ideas of the psychoanalytic movement as a system of cultural beliefs.
| ISBN: | 9780810113701 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 1996 |
| Author: | Ernest Gellner |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 241 pages |
| Series: | Rethinking Theory |
| Genres: |
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology |