The Crisis of Psychoanalysis - Essays on Freud, Marx & Social Psychology

Synopsis

Erich Fromm's new book is of special importance in bringing together his basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. It contains the first translation into English of his important early papers on social psychology, which laid the foundation for his synthesis of Marx and Freud. The title essay, specially written for this volume, argues that most psychoanalysis failed to develop Freud's theories in the spirit of a continual unmasking of rationalizations and ideologies.