Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Taylor & Francis

Marxism and PsychoanalysisIn or against Psychology?\nAuthor(s): David Pavon-Cuellar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138916586, 978-1138916586\nSynopsis\nThe methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is screened through the twin dynamics of Marxism and psychoanalysis. David Pavn-Cullar asks to what extent the terms, concerns and goals of psychology reflect, in fact, the dominant bourgeois ideology that has allowed it to flourish. \n\nThe book charts a gradual psychologization within society and culture dating from the nineteenth century, and examines how the tacit ideals within mainstream psychology creating good citizens or productive workers sit uneasily against Marx and Freuds ambitions of revealing fau.