Features
ISBN Number: 9781566632164
Subtitle: The Social Origins of Our Psychoanalytic Century
Author: Wain, Martin
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Location: Chicago :
Subject: History
Subject: United states
Subject: Psychiatry
Subject: Europe
Subject: Psychoanalysis
Subject: Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939
Subject: United States Intellectual life 19th century.
Subject: Europe Intellectual life 190th century.
Subject: Psychiatry x
Subject: Movements, Psychoanalysis
Publication Date: 1998
Cover Type: Trade Cloth
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: xv, 366 p.
Book Size: 9.48x6.48x1.36 in. 1.50 lbs.
In this stimulating and original book, Martin Wain provides the first coherent view of the roots of Freudian psycho-analysis, showing how Freud and his colleagues were social, political, and economic therapists in the broadest sense. Their patient was modern Western culture at a time of disorder and maximum danger. Their treatment consisted of deep, suggestive, symbolic messages so effective and desirable that for a hundred years they held sway, influencing a myriad of human endeavors. Freud's Answer illuminates one of the major intellectual phenomena of our age. Book News Annotation:
Argues that the reason for the growth and success of the
psychoanalytic theories of Freud and his colleagues was a broad
social crisis which threatened the order of the European liberal
democracies. The theories of Freud, according to the author, were a
normalizing force which no longer equated social rebellion with sin
or political disobedience, but with a sickness supported by the
"objectivity" of science. Psychoanalysis was, in the end, a new
control which took the place of authority in the name of the king,
the church, or the family.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
In this stimulating and original book, Martin Wank provides the first coherent view of the roots of Freudian psychoanalysis, showing how Freud and his colleagues were social, political, and economic therapists in the broadest sense.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-355) and index.
