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The Psychoanalytic Movement (Paladin Movements & Ideas)
  

The Psychoanalytic Movement (Paladin Movements & Ideas) (Paperback)

by Ernest Gellner (Author) "Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Fontana Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (15 Nov 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006863000
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006863007
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,151,363 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Part of the "Paladin Movements and Ideas" series, this book is an exploration of the latter half of the 19th century, explaining where Sigmund Freud came from and why he happened when he did. The psychoanalytic movement went on to become one of the major movements in the 20th century.

About the Author
Ernest Gellner was born in Paris in 1925, and was educated in Prague and England. He was professor of philosophy and sociology at the London School of Economics from 1949 to 1984. In 1984 he became the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Nations and Nationalism (Blackwell Publishers, 1983), Anthropology and Politics (Blackwell Publishers, 1996), and Encounters with Nationalism (Blackwell Publishers, 1995). Dr Gellner died in 1995. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars UNATO, 3 Mar 2007
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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Ernest Gellner stigmatizes Freudianism as a secular religion, where the Unconscious (a new version of the Original Sin) is treated as a Revelation, with a sharp distinction between the sacred (those under analysis) and the profane, between the good (the true believers) and the bad, and where reason must be suspended.
Freud's concepts are untestable (the experience - transfer - between analysand and analyst is unique) and nebulous (reality can always be made conform to the system).
His basic technique is free association which should lead to the uncovering of repressed mental contents and correspondent therapeutic consequences for the patient.
The only testable component of the theory are its therapeutic claims, but the effectiveness of the therapy is extremely dubious and unproven.
For the author, Freudianism is a self-perpetuating, falsification-evading, closed system, which controls its own database. In one word, it is a pseudo-science.
Its enormous vested interests (also financial) are cultivated and protected by a guild: UNATO (United Nations Analysis and Therapy Organization).

This brilliantly written, corrosive text contains excellent short evaluations of Nietzsche, Marx, Berkeley, Plato and Stoicism.

A must read for all guild-members and outsiders.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Well................, 18 Dec 2007
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I was rather disappionted with this book. It's coverage of the early history of psychoanalysis was very interesting and gave food for thought. By Chapter 3, however, it began to loose its way. Although some balance and fair critique remain, many of the charges display a lack of understanding and are at times deeply confused as well as contradictory. His description of transference is so awful I felt it dishonest in that it's description only served his argument. Although published in the 1980's, he also ignores recent developments and focuses almost singularly on Freud and his, very human, failings.

This critique is peppered with loaded words, phrases and prejudice. His frustration with psychoanalysis is quite clear. At one point he laments that the very nature of psychoanalysis means the only arguments against it are Ad Hominem, which in the case of this book he exemplifies in a very personal way.

At the very end he states that the unconscious world Freud described was "true", but the cure was not. Which I found to be very telling.
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