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Author Wain, Martin, 1932-

Title Freud's answer : the social origins of our psychoanalytic century / Martin Wain
Published Chicago, Ill : Ivan R. Dee, 1998

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Description xv, 366 pages ; 23 cm
Summary In Freud's Answer, Martin Wain provides the first coherent view of the roots of Freudian psychoanalysis. In the new urban industrial age of the late nineteenth century, Mr. Wain shows, Freud and his colleagues were social, political, and economic therapists in the broadest sense. Their patient was modern Western culture at a time of disorder and maximum danger. The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution had overturned the old order but had left the new masses of individuals on their own, lacking the certainties of the old life. Now that authority in the form of the king, the church, and the family had lost its power, the new liberal democracies needed new means of control. Freud and the other pioneers of psychoanalysis provided the way. Their treatment - designed to preserve a form of government they found highly desirable - was a set of theoretical concepts and practices so effective that for a hundred years they held sway, powerfully affecting a myriad of endeavors. Freud's Answer for the first time clearly illuminates one of the major intellectual phenomena of our age
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-355) and index
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence.
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100044
ISBN 1566635179
9781566635172