Secrets Of The Soul
A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2005
Summary
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century - though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt.More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, we’re no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the ‘romance’ of psychotherapy and the author…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400079230 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1400079233 |
| Author: | Eli Zaretsky |
| Publisher: | Three Rivers Press |
| Imprint: | Three Rivers Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 389g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“Zaretsky’s narrative deftly braids together the conflicts, contradictions, injuries and ironies that composed the extremely mixed foundation of what Janet Malcolm called ‘the impossible profession’.” - Newsday
About The Author
Eli Zaretsky
Eli Zaretsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His book, Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life, has been translated into fourteen languages. His articles on the history of the family, psychoanalysis, and modern cultural history have appeared in numerous scholarly journals. He is currently Professor of History at the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research, New School University in New York City.
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