Eli Zaretsky Livres

The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt.More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams , we’re no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the “romance” of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to today’s age of psychopharmacology. In Secrets of the Soul , Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved–sometimes under pressure–from sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all.

Much of twentieth-century political thought, ideologies, and movements cannot be understood without grasping the influence of psychoanalysis. Critical theory, postcolonial understandings of race, interpretations of the Holocaust and war, feminism, and the New Left all drew on Freud in both high theory and everyday understanding. In Political Freud, Zaretsky narrates the twentieth- century story with verve and insight and shows how the influences continue into the twenty-first. Craig Calhoun, director, London School of Economics and Political Science

Was zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts mit den eigenwilligen Forschungen des jungen Doktor Freud begann, hat das Selbstverständnis des Menschen und seiner Kultur verändert wie kaum eine andere Theorie. Eli Zaretsky hat nun die erste wirklich umfassende Geschichte der Psychoanalyse geschrieben. Sie handelt nicht nur von den prominenten Protagonisten - von Freud und Adler bis zu Lacan - sondern versteht die psychoanalytische Bewegung als einen zentralen Akteur der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. „Sorgfältig und intelligent: diese Form der Auseinandersetzung mit der Psychoanalyse war dringend notwendig.“ (Peter Gay)

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