Secrets of the soul. Cocal and cultural history of psychoanalysis. Zaretsk E.

The more than the centennial history of psychoanalysis is full of unexpected and dramatic turns. Having received recognition as an inspiring language of human emancipation, he played a central role in the emergence of modernism in the 1920s, the design of the British and American versions of the “state of universal welfare” in the 1940-1950s. the occurrence of rebellious radicalism in the 1960s, movements for gender rights and sexual identities in the 1970s. But at the same time, psychoanalysis became a stronghold of Xenophobic prejudices that block political participation, at some point became a degenerate profession and even turned into a “pseudo-dwarf”.

The book of Eli Zaretsk is an attempt to explore the paradoxes of the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis. The author seeks to reveal and again approve the liberating measurement of psychoanalytic thought, without denying the validity of the critical view of her and the need to rethink her heritage. Eli Zaretsk-a professor of the history of the new school of social research (New York), a specialist in cultural history of the 20th century.