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The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason Paperback - 1996

by Ernest Gellner


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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.

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  • Title The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
  • Author Ernest Gellner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-08
  • ISBN 9780810113701 / 0810113708
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.91 x 5.99 x 0.75 in (22.63 x 15.21 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Freud, Sigmund, Psychoanalysis - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-17329
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150.195

About the author

His first book, Words and Things (1958) prompted a leader in The Times and a month-long correspondence on its letters page over his attack on linguistic philosophy. As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics for 22 years, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for eight, and finally as head of the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague, Gellner fought all his life--in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism--against what he saw as closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, relativism, and the dictatorship of the free market.
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