The Unconscious Significance of Hair by Berg, Charles - 1951

Paperback / softback. New. <p>Originally published in 1951, the implications of this book are far wider and deeper than its title suggests. The book is really a psychiatric criticism of normality based upon a chosen item of typically normal behaviour. It is, however, written in a way that will be easily understood by every intelligent reader.</p>

Routledge, 2023. Paperback. New. 114 pages. 8.50x5.44 inches.

Routledge, 2023. Paperback. New. 114 pages. 8.50x5.44x0.39 inches.

E-019: Guild Press LTD. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Guild Press Ltd, Washington DC. 1951. 106 pages. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In The Unconscious Significance of Hair, Charles Berg, a psychoanalyst, developed Freud's insights into a cross-cultural theory of hair practices. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, Berg argued that castration anxiety was behind various hair practices the world over, irrespective of a person's gender. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 106 pages .

Hardback. New. Originally published in 1951, the implications of this book were thought to be far wider and deeper than its title suggests. 'Hair-activities are chosen merely as a sample of uncritically accepted human behaviour. The author then proceeds to examine them very carefully in the light of dreams, anthropology, folklore, symptoms and perversions. He shows them to be an expression of instinct-driven tensions and conflicts. The popular illusion that they are determined by reason or adaption to reality is exploded. The corollary is inescapable; if in this innocent particular our thoughts and behaviour are symptomatic expressions of an unconscious conflict or complex, how much more psychopathic would our more significant ideas, beliefs, institutions, customs and laws prove to be on similar detailed investigation! Is, therefore, our self-expression in life and civilization nothing more than a symptom, identical in its source and mechanism with the symptoms of nervous and mental… Read More

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Routledge, 2021. Hardcover. New. 110 pages. 8.56x5.43x0.51 inches.