Scubla, Lucien,

Giving life, giving death : psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy / Lucien Scubla ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages.) - Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture .

"Donner la vie, donner la mort: psychoanalyse, anthropolgie, philosophie copyright (c) 2014 Editions Le Bord de L'eau" --

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



9781609174941


Psychoanalysis and anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.


Electronic Books.

GN508 / .G585 2016