The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France /

Robcis, Camille.

The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

The family and the republican social contract -- Kinship and the structuralist social contract -- The circulation of structuralism in the French public sphere -- The "quiet revolution" in family policy and family law -- Fatherless societies and anti-oedipal philosophies -- Alternative kinships and republican structuralism -- Epilogue : kinship, ethics, and the nation.

"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.



9780801468391 9780801468407

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Lévi-Strauss, Claude--Influence.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 --Influence.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 --Influence.
Levi-Strauss, Claude--Influence.


Family policy--France.
Sex role--Government policy--France.
Families--Philosophy.--France
Domestic relations--Philosophy.--France
Psychoanalysis and anthropology--France.


Electronic Books.

HQ624 / .L396 2013