Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p An important new work by Eissler, Three Instances of Injustice develops a psychoanalytic point of view about the phenomenon of gossip, provides a careful disproof of one of the ugliest charges laid against Freud, and presents a thoughtful exploration of a major scandal. The book is thus a contribution to a small body of literature in which a psychoanalyst steps outside his field to comment on matters of contemporary social and political concern. The injustices in question are those of ordinary life and do not depend for their identification on an abstruse moral theory: if the facts are as Dr. Eissler lays them out, hardly anyone will disagree that the essays concern genuine and severe forms of injustice. At least two of the essays deal with events that became causes celebres in their time, and it can fairly be stated that all three concern issues of quite general interest. In his discussion of the case of Dr. . }
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- catalog description "An important new work by Eissler, Three Instances of Injustice develops a psychoanalytic point of view about the phenomenon of gossip, provides a careful disproof of one of the ugliest charges laid against Freud, and presents a thoughtful exploration of a major scandal. The book is thus a contribution to a small body of literature in which a psychoanalyst steps outside his field to comment on matters of contemporary social and political concern. The injustices in question are those of ordinary life and do not depend for their identification on an abstruse moral theory: if the facts are as Dr. Eissler lays them out, hardly anyone will disagree that the essays concern genuine and severe forms of injustice. At least two of the essays deal with events that became causes celebres in their time, and it can fairly be stated that all three concern issues of quite general interest. In his discussion of the case of Dr. ".