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George Makari's Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis was published in 2008 to international acclaim. Makari is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and adjunct professor at show more both Rockefeller University and Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Center. He lives in New York City. show less

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Maybe inevitable when an author is both a psychiatrist and a historian, but this book went in too many directions for my taste, along with a terribly long digression about French existentialism. (Just a chapter or two, but why oh why?) But there is a lot of valuable information and analysis here, and some good history. A thread through the book is about the changing meaning of the word xenophobia, which despite its Greek components was never a term used in the classical times, although a show more similar word meaning “love of strangers” was found in ancient writings. show less
I was interested in reading this book because it had excellent reviews and because I was intrigued by the idea of learning more about how the key ideas of psychoanalysis developed. Unfortunately for me, the book is probably aimed at people who are more interested in the history of the people who created psychoanalysis and their relationships, competitions, battles, etc., than in the psychological ideas themselves. I found myself skimming much of the book because I just couldn't get show more interested in the almost play-by-play descriptions of letters, meetings, etc. show less
Mejor Libro de No Ficción Bloomberg 2021 y Ganador del Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award 2023

Una profunda investigación histórica que nos acerca a relatos completamente olvidados de la xenofobia y lo que significan para nosotros hoy en día

Si bien el miedo y el odio hacia los extranjeros son tan antiguos como la propia condición humana, la idea de un prejuicio peligroso denominado xenofobia es mucho más reciente. El término, acuñado por médicos y comentaristas políticos a show more finales del siglo XIX, se fue popularizando en paralelo al desarrollo del nacionalismo occidental, el colonialismo, la migración masiva y el genocidio hasta llegar a nuestros días.

Entretejiendo historia, filosofía y psicología, George Makari indaga con rigor en la evolución del concepto de xenofobia: desde sus orígenes y posterior consolidación como principio ético a raíz de una serie de acontecimientos históricos que culminaron en el Holocausto hasta su abrupta reaparición en el siglo XXI. Para llevar a cabo tan compleja tarea, el investigador dialoga con escritos de figuras como Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus y Richard Wright, así como de pensadores más innovadores como Walter Lippmann, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir y Frantz Fanon.

Magistral, original y con un estilo depurado y elegante, Del miedo y los extranjeros propone un nuevo paradigma para comprender cómo la ansiedad irracional y los conflictos en torno a la identidad arrastran a grupos enteros y alimentan los titulares que hoy contribuyen a polarizar a la sociedad más que nunca.
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