{"product_id":"the-psychoanalytic-movement-9780631234135","title":"The Psychoanalytic Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Movement\u003c\/i\u003e explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Movement\u003c\/i\u003e was recognized as a classic upon its publication. José Brunner's new introduction places the argument within the context of “the Freud wars”, making it clear that the book was as concerned to explain the fabulous success of psychoanalysis as to debunk its pretensions. This may be Gellner's greatest book, containing as it does a general view of the history of philosophy and the character of modernity.’ \u003ci\u003eJohn A. Hall, McGill University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrevious praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Movement\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A marvel… This is a brilliantly written book, every page sparkling with intelligence, style and substance. Gellner provides a welcome and literate overview of the latest philosophic controversy about the logical status of psychoanalytic propositions. Its every page instructs and enlivens and represents a tribute to humane intelligence.’ \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In a stylish, witty and deceptively readable book, Gellner exposes the secular religious nature of the psychoanalytic enterprise. He admits that a compelling, charismatic belief must possess more than merely the promise of succour in a plague and links with the background convictions of the age.’ \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This is the first determined effort to account for a very odd historical and sociological phenomenon in realistic and meaningful terms…and it makes very good sense. Gellner is incisive, agreeable to read and often witty.’ \u003ci\u003eInstitute of Psychiatry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Back to Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGibbon's Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Basic Facts and Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Angel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Harbinger of the \u003ci\u003ePays Reel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Battering-Ram.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. The Plague.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGive Us This Day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal Sin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePastoral Care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Click.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wager.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Pirandello Effect.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree-Fall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInside and Out.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransference (Greater Love Has No Man).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptual Deprivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Terminal Valve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Implicit Promise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. On the Rack.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLicensed to Cure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA State of Grace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Realist Theory of Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHire-Purchase Stoicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Adjustment to Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Errors of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Cunning Broker.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Concept of the Unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsycho-Hydraulics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Cunning Bastard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReduction at the Service of Man (or, a Plethora of Omens).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Reality Regained.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Emaciated World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Servicing of Reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Habitable World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bourgeois Dionysic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. The Embourgoisement of the Psyche.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Guardians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato Up-ended.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransvaluation of Values, to Customer Specification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocrates and the Cave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Anatomy of a Faith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Erring Husband and the Principle of Recursive Cunning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrief Checklist and a \u003ci\u003eMuch Worse Murder.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eData and Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Outside Comments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trickster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreud and the Art of Daemon Maintenance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEternal Corrigibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. The Bounds of Science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTestability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTestability Vindicated?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Natural Transcendent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwitches.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Three-Horse Race.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeast, Shaft and Test.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. La Therapie Imaginaire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFloat and Sail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruth and Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pineal Gland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCaptain of His Soul.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403458126167,"sku":"9780631234135","price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631234135.jpg?v=1730483530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-psychoanalytic-movement-9780631234135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}