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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162771103321

Autore

Scubla Lucien

Titolo

Giving life, giving death : psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy / / Lucien Scubla ; translated by M. B. DeBevoise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-62895-267-9

1-60917-494-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and anthropology

Philosophical anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Freud and the Oedipus Legend; Chapter 2. Procreation and Headhunting: Fatherhood among the Marind; Chapter 3. The Guardians of Dogma: Jones, Malinowski, and the Maternal Uncle; Chapter 4. The Atom of Kinship, or the Absent Mother; Chapter 5. Incest of the Second Type: Impasses and Issues; Chapter 6. The Brother-Sister Relationship and the Principle of Male Dominance; Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Difference or Dissolving Hierarchy?: From Asymmetry to Parity; Chapter 8. Testart's Law: Division of Labor and Sexual Identity

Chapter 9. Nature and Culture: The Return of the Sophists in Western ThoughtChapter 10. Reik, Guardian of Dogma: Couvade, Initiation Rites, and the Oedipus Complex; Chapter 11. Hierarchy of the Sexes and Hierarchy of Knowledge, or Plato among the Baruya; Chapter 12. Ethnology and Psychology in Róheim and Devereux: Identity, Homology, or Complementarity?; Chapter 13. Should Totem and Taboo Simply Be Forgotten?; Chapter 14. Freud, in Spite of Everything; Chapter 15. Conceiving and Transmitting; Notes; Bibliography; Index