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Article: To the editors.(Letter to the editor)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2008
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Perhaps because of her professed inability to understand my argument, Hannah Decker's review of Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (Journal of Social History, Fall 2005, volume 39, issue 1) focused on what she calls "blunders," "errors," and "mistakes." Rather than engage at that level, I prefer to devote the bulk of this response to restating my argument.
I defined psychoanalysis as the first "theory and practice of personal life," by which I meant an historically new sense of internal, psychological life, disconnected from one's place in society, and even the family. I connected personal life to the second industrial ...