Giving Life, Giving Death : Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Series .
- Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- 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 Thought -- Chapter 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.