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Book Review
| Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis. By Eli Zaretsky. (New York: Knopf, 2004. xvi, 429 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44654-0.)
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| In this sweeping review of psychoanalysis in Europe and the United States, Max Weber looms as large as Sigmund Freud. Using a Weberian sensibility to probe psychoanalysis demonstrates the virtues of approaching changes in material life, social institutions, and leading ideas as historically interdependent. Channeling Weber to probe the momentous cultural difference Freud made, Eli Zaretsky believes, promises new revelations not only about psychoanalysis but also about the triumphs and failures of modernity between the late nineteenth century and the end of the 1960s. |
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