Alchemists of human nature
Subtitle: psychological utopianism in Gross, Jung, Reich and Fromm
By: by Petteri Pietikainen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781315652979
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; History; Utopias; Psychanalyse; Histoire; Utopies; Utopian literature
Notes: Originally published 2007 by Pickering & Chatto.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The nature of psychological utopianism; title: 2. The new Soviet man : psychoanalysis and the conquest of the unconscious in the early days of the Soviet Union; title: 3. Anarchy, Eros and the mother right : utopianism in Otto Gross; title: 4. Individuation and 'national individuation' : utopianism in Carl G. Jung; title: 5. Sexual revolution and the power of Orgone energy : utopianism in Wilhelm Reich; title: 6. Socialist humanism and the sane society : utopianism in Erich Fromm.