Mankind in Amnesia

Name: Mankind in Amnesia
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Immanuel Velikovsky
ISBN: 9781666175509

Author: Immanuel Velikovsky

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/18/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Science, Sociology

Synopsis

Immanuel Velikovsky called this book the "fulfillment of his oath of Hippocrates—to serve humanity." In this book, he returns to his roots as a psychologist and psychoanalytical therapist, yet not with a single person as his patient but with humanity as a whole. After an extremely revealing overview of the foundations of the various psychoanalytical systems he makes the step into crowd psychology and reopens the case of Worlds in Collision from a totally different point of view: as a psychoanalytical case study. This way he shows that the blatant reactions to his theories (which are still going on today) have not been surprising but are actually inevitable from a psychological perspective—which equally holds for those who have defined our view of the world. At the same time he is able to reclassify the theories of Siegmund Freud and of C. G. Jung by finding a common basis for them. A journey through history, religion, mythology and art shows the overall range of the collective trauma and gives us—the patients—a message of extraordinary urgency and importance for the future.

About Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) was a Russian independent scholar who wrote a number of books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he had played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Yuganka on August 09, 2015

Velikovsky has bitten off more than he can chew Immanuel Velikovsky has been one of the giants of pseudo-science/pseudo-history. Pseudoscience is an examination of events, happenings or phenomenon through a perspective which lacks sufficient supporting evidence, which is not verifiable to the exten......more

Goodreads review by Scott on October 10, 2021

While definitely not for everyone by any means for me the premise of Mankind in Amnesia - even if not 100% absolute truth is definitely 5/5 engaging and the author's rigorous insights into the effects on humankind of the cataclysms he had researched inspired courage and reflection. Primarily the page......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on December 17, 2022

Very random and unheard of book but actually raised quite a few interesting points. The biggest take away for me was the points that the author makes around us as a humanity and how we may be suffering from an enormous amount of trauma based not necessarily on what a couple of generations of our anc......more

Goodreads review by Zdenek on May 04, 2023

"Mankind in Amnesia" by Immanuel Velikovsky is a thought-provoking book that challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about human history and evolution. In this book, Velikovsky argues that humanity has forgotten much of its past, and that this amnesia has profound implications for our understa......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 19, 2023

Best just to buy Worlds in Collision. The author rehashes a lot of material.......more