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