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Looks to be an interesting book. There is a rumor that at some point in the future contributing authors will see a copy! :-) mike On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > Understood Larry. That's why I used the word "also", except I mistyped and > it came out "lso"! :) > > andy > > Larry Purss wrote: > >> Andy >> my comments were in the spirit of emphasizing the tradition of >> psychoanalysis AS A SOCIOCULTURAL PRODUCT AND REFLECTION of the times in >> which it was written. Through an historical lens Kirschner narrates the >> roots of the tradition and therefore is contributing to the developing >> reactions and critiques of psychoanalysis as an historical product >> influential in the 20th century. The questioning and challenging of its >> presuppositions in the human sciences has generated deeper reflections on >> psychology as a tradition. Kirschner's history of psychoanalysis [as an >> historically constituted product of its time] is an historical >> sociocultural narrative. I mentioned her previous writing to put in >> "context" Kirschner's background. I found it interesting that her current >> book synthesizing sociocultural accounts was written by an author with her >> previous interests. Moscovici, in explicating his theory of social >> represention also has written a book on the emergence and dissemination of >> psychoanalyis as an historical sociocultural phenomena. These historical >> reflections are in a similar spirit of exploring the notions of Western >> religion and how the moral themes of Western religious traditions can >> continue to emerge in contemporary human science narratives. >> Larry >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto: >> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote: >> >> I've never been very much interested in psychoanalysis (too >> unscientific for me) but Eli Zaretsky's "Secrets of the Soul" (a >> history of psychoanalysis) I really enjoyed, lso emphasising >> psychoanalysis as a product and reflection of the times rather than >> as a viable theory of mind. >> >> Andy >> >> >> Larry Purss wrote: >> >> PS, >> Andy,for the historian in you, Suzanne Kirschner has written >> another fascinating book on the cultural historical roots of >> psychoanalysis that is an historical developmental account of >> how Freud's theory is a continuation of our Western religious >> heritage. A concrete example of how our "traditions that >> constitute us as persons" emerge from specific concrete >> historical circumstances. She has an interesting intellectual >> background from which to co-author this new book on the >> sociocultural turn in psychology. >> Larry >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> >> >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/> > Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos > Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss > > > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca