Crisis of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Freud, Marx, and Social Psychology
By Erich Fromm.
Description
Psychanalysis is in crisis. It will die, Erich Fromm warns, unless it changes direction, stops concerning itself solely with the individual, and takes into account the conditioning factors of society. Yet Fromm's views are deeply rooted in the work of Freud; and, while he is not an anti-Freudian, he develops Freud's views by including the social as well as the ethical dimensions. Dr. Fromm analyzes the role and promise of psychoanalysis in nine brilliant essays. He examines the importance of the matriarchal principle, the erosion of patriarchal authority, contemporary family struc...
ISBN(s)
0805016074, 9780805016079
