""Contents ""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One. The Psyche as Symbol: Theological Anticipations""; ""Chapter Two. The Unconscious Discovered: The Mesmerists' Legacy""; ""Chapter Three. Science Appropriates the Unconscious: The Birth of Academic Psychology""; ""Chapter Four. Psychology, Religion, and the Unconscious: The Jamesian Synthesis""; ""Chapter Five. Assimilation and Accommodation: American Interpretations of Psychoanalysis""; ""Chapter Six. Excising the Psyche: American Behaviorism""; ""Chapter Seven. Rediscovering the Unconscious: Humanistic Psychology"" ""Chapter Eight. The Apotheosis: The Unconscious in Popular Psychology"" ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Summary
The author examines the symbolic role of the unconscious in American psychology, and shows that in America, theories of the unconscious have embodied specifically religious assumptions and aspirations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-243) and index
