num_pages: 440
description: "This psychoanalytic perspective on the history of Western civilization applies Freudian explanations of the unconscious to social and religious developments through time. A detailed examination of the psychological foundations of human cultures, from their origins to the present, is presented to probe the collective and individual motivations that have powered history. Recent discoveries in archaeology, prehistory, and social anthropology are integrated into this view of human psychosocial
language: English
title: The Social History of the Unconscious: A Psychoanalysis of Society
titlecomplete: The Social History of the Unconscious: A Psychoanalysis of Society
publisher: Open Gate Press