The revision of psychoanalysis
By: Erich Fromm ; edited by Rainer Funk.
Contributors: Funk, Rainer.
Series: Interventions--theory and contemporary politics
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Subconsciousness -- Social aspects; Social psychology; Sexual deviation
Description: It was Erich Fromm's conviction that psychoanalysis needs to retain Freud's essential insight into the unconscious while replacing his mechanistic-materialistic philosophy with a humanistic one. In this book, never before published in English, Fromm presents such a revision of psychoanalysis, one that is both humanistic and dialectical. The Revision of Psychoanalysis is Fromm's long-expected account of his own personal way of understanding and practicing psychoanalysis.

Of special interest to today's readers are his continuing efforts to understand the meaning of sexuality, his critique of Herbert Marcuse's vision of psychoanalysis, and the implications of a Freudian analytical social psychology for the reform of social arrangements. The book is essential reading for psychologists and for social and political theorists in many disciplines. For psychoanalysts, it provides Fromm's most provocative and unique recommendations for the.

Revision of psychoanalysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-134) and indexes.