The psychoanalytic movement : the cunning of unreason
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The psychoanalytic movement : the cunning of unreason
（Rethinking theory）
Northwestern University Press, 1996
- cloth
- pbk.
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Originally published: London : Paladin, 1985
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233) and index
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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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