Secrets of the soul : a social and cultural history of psychoanalysis / Eli Zaretsky.

  • Zaretsky, Eli.
Date:
2004
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Physical description

xv, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-413) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PQW /ZAR
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  • 0679446540