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Marxism and Psychoanalysis - In or against Psychology? (Paperback)
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Marxism and Psychoanalysis - In or against Psychology? (Paperback)
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
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The 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 Pavon-Cuellar asks to what extent the terms, concerns and
goals of psychology reflect, in fact, the dominant bourgeois
ideology that has allowed it to flourish. The 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 Freud's ambitions of
revealing fault-lines and contradictions within individualist and
consumer-oriented structures. The positivist aspiration of
psychology to become a natural science has been the source of
extensive debate, critical voices asserting the social and cultural
contexts through which the human mind and behaviour should be
understood. This challenging new book provides another voice that,
in addressing two of the most influential intellectual traditions
of the past 150 years, widens the debate still further to examine
the foundations of psychology.
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