The Psychoanalytic Movement: Freudianism as Historical Accident
5 min readNov 21, 2020
How did Freudianism achieve such a solid foothold in the intellectual life of the West with so little scientific basis?
Review of Ernest Gellner’s The Psychoanalytic Movement
The Psychoanalytic Movement tries to answer the question: how did Freudianism come to achieve such a solid foothold in the intellectual life of the West, especially in light of the fact that Freudianism has such little scientific basis?
