The Unconscious Before Freud
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Lancelot Law Whyte |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Unconscious mind |
| Published | 1960 (Basic Books) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 219 |
| ISBN | 978-0904014488 |
The Unconscious Before Freud is a 1960 book about the history of ideas about the unconscious mind by Lancelot Law Whyte.
Summary
Whyte, writing from a nonpsychoanalytic perspective,[1] describes the two thousand years of thinking about the unconscious that preceded Sigmund Freud, showing how Freud's predecessors established its importance.[2]
Reception
Psychologist Hans Eysenck notes in his Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (1985) that Whyte's book has become a classic.[2] Historian Peter Gay called the work "a brief but helpful survey" in his Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988), but contrasted it unfavorably with Henri Ellenberger's subsequent work The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970).[3]
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