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Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

by George Makari (Author)
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (5 Mar 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0715637754
  • ISBN-13: 978-0715637753
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 166,195 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Brilliant ... a magisterial study' -- Financial Times. 'A brilliant book ... by far the best intellectual history of psychoanalysis yet written' -- Lancet. 'At last: a history of psychoanalysis without partisanship or rancour. This neutral and thorough account of one of the most controversial intellectual movements to sweep Europe and the world ... is greatly needed today ... An impressive achievement' --Literary Review.

'Rich and even-handed ... Makari's lucid and thoroughly researched book is an indispensible guide' -- TLS. 'Beautifully researched ... This is one of the clearest accounts I have read of this period ... He writes in a style that makes his book equally absorbing as a holiday book and a textbook and it will attract non-clinicians as much as practitioners' - British Journal of Psychiatry. 'Pioneering ... an important, even brilliant book ... An immensely joyful experience ... riverting' --International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

'By far the best informed history of psychoanalysis' -- Harold Bloom. 'Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind ... an astounding breath of knowlege and an unprecedented gift for synthesis' -- Paul Auster. 'Rather than providing yet another biography of Freud, Makari maps out the Freud family tree with all its thorny branches, its disciples and dissenters' -- New York Times. 'A terrific new history of psychoanalysis ... a compelling, rich narrative filled with fascinating characters and colorful settings' -- --New York Post.

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'Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars More conventional than revolutionary, 4 Mar 2009
By Bellelli Andrea (Roma, Italy) - See all my reviews
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Makari's is certainly an informed and thorough history of psychoanalysis. The founding father of the discipline with his first disciples are depicted with an impressive series of details obtained from an extensive perusal of their public and private writings, documented by numerous excerpts of their correspondence.
However, the analysis in itself is not impressive and almost completely uncritical. Makari is happier with anecdotes than with theories, and writes a book that overlooks some crucial points of the debate he wants to describe. Let me give just one example.
There is no question that Freud pretended to base his theory on biology (the reader may read the authoritative studies of MacMillan and Cioffi on this point). Besides guaranteing the scientific status of psychoanalysis, Freud's obsolete and distorted biological premises had the essential function of justifying his clinical interpretations: dreams, lapsuses, neurotica and psychotic symptoms are psychical actions, that require psychical energy (libido) that derives from body needs. Thus if the patient dreams, the psychoanalyst is entitled to interpret his dream as due to libido, by exclusion: there cannot be any other appropriate source of psychical energy. The psychoanalists who maintained Freud's biological premises looked completely obsolete to their colleagues who wanted to reformulate or to dispose of these premises; but the former could rightly accuse the latter of jeopardizing the epistemology of the analytical method. This crucial debate is reduced in Makari's analysis to skirmishes of different opinions: thus in this book we learn more about Federn's acidic and M. Klein's volcanic temperament, than about their (unsound) reasons.
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