Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis

by Eli Zaretsky

Book Overview

The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century - though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, we're no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400079233
• ISBN13: 9781400079230
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"