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XII; 322; IX S.; 22 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschlag mit kl. Läsuren u. berieben. - Englisch. - SINCE Sigmund Freud's death, the relationship between his social thought and his clinical theories has become increasingly obscure. As psychoanalysis became a medical speciality, Freud's social thought received almost no attention from professional psychoanalysts; and today his books on social matters have little meaning for them. On the other hand, this aspect of Freud's thought was continued by social theorists, with little concern for the clinical preoccupations which Freud himself took for granted. The upshot of these divergent trends has been harmful for both psychoanalysts and social thinkers. Paul Roazen shows that studying Freud's social thought can help us arrive at a deeper understanding of Freud's mind and character, and hence of his psychology and its limitations. If psychoanalysis has lost its richness because it has become narrower than the legacy Freud bequeathed to history, political theory has also sacrificed something by its one-sided treatment of his social thought. A distorted view of psychoanalytic theory has often resulted from focusing exclusively on Freud's social thought, apart from his clinical contributions. The alternative which Professor Roazen adopts is to reunite the social and clinical strands in Freud's work. ... (Verlagstext) / ... Using Freud's essays on war and social cohesion as the main textual vehicles, Chapter IV focuses on the psychology of aggression and the issues involved in limit-setting and permissiveness. Recent advances in ego psychology make it possible to extend the relevance of Freud's own contributions to social philosophy. Chapter V discusses some of the more normative aspects of Freud's notions, such as cultural reform, the problem of psychological health, and freedom as a moral value. The Introduction and Chapters I through V were completed before the publication of the Freud-Bullitt study of Woodrow Wilson, so the Epilogue tries to bring together my previous analyses in order to make the oddity of that collaborative effort more comprehensible. Here too I found that an understanding of Freud's own psychology was crucial in illuminating some of the major causes of that book's limitations. Much of die contemporary research which to a greater or less extent utilizes Freudian theory will not be discussed here, unless it raises major theoretical questions. While I have not examined anything like all the social and political research which has drawn on the Freudian tradition, I have tried to discuss the whole range of concepts involved in relating the Freudian view of man to society. ? (VIII / IX) ISBN 070120298X