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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799960803321

Titolo

Anthropology and psychoanalysis : an encounter through culture / / edited by Suzette Heald and Ariane Deluz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-86152-4

1-134-86153-2

1-280-33618-8

0-203-20056-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HealdSuzette

DeluzAriane

Disciplina

155.8

Soggetti

Ethnopsychology

Social sciences and psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a colloquium entitled Culture, Psychoanalyse, Interpretation held in Paris in July 1991--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Interpreting the implicit: George Devereux and the Greek myths; Incestuous fantasy and kinship among the Guro; Islam, symbolic hegemony and the problem of bodily expression; Trauma and ego-syntonic response: the Holocaust and 'The Newfoundland Young Yids', 1985; Dream imagery becomes social experience: the cultural elucidation of dream interpretation; Psychoanalysis, unconscious phantasy and interpretation; Gendered persons: dialogues between anthropology and psychoanalysis; Lacanian ethnopsychoanalysis

Lacan and anthropology: comments on Chapters 8 and 9Indulgent fathers and collective male violence; Every man a hero: Oedipal themes in Gisu circumcision; Symbolic homosexuality and cultural theory: the unconscious meaning of sister exchange among the Gimi of Highland New Guinea; Psychoanalysis as content: reflections on Chapters 11, 12 and 13; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising



anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to psychoanalysis and the way in which the present fracturing of each of these national traditions and their post-modern turn has led to a new willingness to investigate the relationships between the disciplines and the role of the unconscious in cu