Psychoanalysis : its image and its public / Serge Moscovici ; translated by David Macey ; edited with an introduction by Gerard Duveen.

Psychanalyse. English

Cambridge, UK : Polity, [2008], ©2008.

xxxviii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"This is a translation of 2nd edition of 1976, itself a substantial revision of the original edition of 1961"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [366]-372) and index.

Pt. I : the social representation of psychoanalysis: findings of survey and theoretical analysis -- Social representation : a lost concept -- Psychoanalysis as she is spoken -- Ideas that become common-sense objects -- 'Homo psychanalyticus' -- A marginal hero -- The psychoanalysis of everyday life -- A Freud for all seasons -- Ideologies and their discontents -- On jargon in general and Franco-analytic jargon in particular -- Natural thought : observation made in the course of the interviews -- Pt. II : psychoanalysis in the French press content analysis and analysis of systems of communication -- The press : an overview -- The diffusion of psychoanalysis -- The encounter between religious dogma and psychoanalytic principles -- The communist party meets a science that is very popular and non-marxist -- A psychosociological analysis of propaganda -- Fifteen years later -- A hypothesis.

Translated from the French.