2 options
Anthropology and psychoanalysis : an encounter through culture / edited by Suzette Heald and Ariane Deluz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnopsychology--Congresses.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Social sciences and psychoanalysis--Congresses.
- Social sciences and psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis--Congresses.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Based on a colloquium entitled Culture, Psychoanalyse, Interpretation held in Paris in July 1991--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-86152-4
- 1-134-86153-2
- 1-280-33618-8
- 0-203-20056-X
- 9780203200568
- OCLC:
- 259497724
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.