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**How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"?** Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, **Lewis Aron** and **Karen Starr** pursue Freud's call for psychoanalysis to be a "psychotherapy for the people." They present a cultural history focusing on how psychoanalysis has always defined itself in relation to an "other." At first, that other was hypnosis and suggestion; later it was psychotherapy. The authors trace a series of binary oppositions, each defined hierarchically, which have plagued the history of psychoanalysis. Tracing reverberations of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia, they show that psychoanalysis, associated with phallic masculinity, penetration, heterosexuality, autonomy, and culture, was defined in opposition to suggestion and psychotherapy, which were seen as promoting dependence, feminine passivity, and relationality. **Aron and Starr** deconstruct these dichotomies, leading the way for a return t

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Author

Lewis Aron, Karen E. Starr

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136225246

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences