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The Freud Files : An Inquiry Into the History of Psychoanalysis by Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel; Shamdasani, Sonu; ; Shamdasani, Sonu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How Did Psychoanalysis Attain Its Prominent Cultural Position? How Did It Eclipse Rival Psychologies And Psychotherapies, Such That It Became Natural To Bracket Freud With Copernicus And Darwin? Why Did Freud 'triumph' To Such A Degree That We Hardly Remember His Rivals? This Book Reconstructs The Early Controversies Around Psychoanalysis And Shows That Rather Than Demonstrating Its Superiority, Freud And His Followers Rescripted History. This Legend-making Was Not An Incidental Addition To Psychoanalytic Theory But Formed Its Core. Letting The Primary Material Speak For Itself, This History Demonstrates The Extraordinary Apparatus By Which This Would-be Science Of Psychoanalysis Installed Itself In Contemporary Societies. Beyond Psychoanalysis, It Opens Up The History Of The Constitution Of The Modern Psychological Sciences And Psychotherapies, How They Furnished The Ideas Which We Have Of Ourselves And How These Became Solidified Into Indisputable 'facts'-- This Book Began In 1993 As An Inquiry Into Freud Historians And Their Work. We Had Become Aware Of The Upheavals That Had Affected Freud Studies Since The 1970s, Which Were Completely Transformating How One Understood Psychoan

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Author

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel; Shamdasani, Sonu; ; Shamdasani, Sonu

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139504133

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, History, Social Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14