num_pages: 241
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
titlecomplete: The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason (Rethinking Theory)
genres: Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology
ratings_count: 37
series: Rethinking Theory
publisher: Northwestern University Press