The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.
- Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
- Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.
- Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction to Second Edition.
1. Back to Nature.
Gibbon's Problem.
Some Basic Facts and Questions.
The Last Angel.
The Harbinger of the Pays Reel.
The Battering-Ram.
2. The Plague.
Give Us This Day.
Original Sin.
Pastoral Care.
The Click.
The Wager.
3. The Pirandello Effect.
Free-Fall.
Inside and Out.
Transference (Greater Love Has No Man).
Conceptual Deprivation.
The Terminal Valve.
The Implicit Promise.
4. On the Rack.
Licensed to Cure.
A State of Grace.
A Realist Theory of Knowledge.
Hire-Purchase Stoicism.
From Adjustment to IdelĂ
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