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Article: Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2005
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Secrets of the Soul. A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis. By Eli Zaretsky (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. xv plus 429 pp. $30.00).
Eli Zaretsky has set himself a very ambitious goal: to bring together developments in psychoanalysis in the West with wider cultural changes and show a relationship between the two. Although his book is liberally sprinkled with interesting information, on the whole he does not succeed in his project. Moreover, Zaretsky's errors of detail cast doubt on the accuracy of his broader syntheses.
Culturally and socially, Zaretsky's book is a study of the "second industrial revolution," that period in the West after ...
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