Oedipus Complex

Taylor & Francis

The Oedipus ComplexFocus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate\nAuthor(s): ric Smadja\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138213197, 978-1138213197\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, ric Smadja explores the complicated historical and epistemological conditions leading up to the emergence of the conflict between the two disciplines. He considers the origins of each science, the \""creation\"" of the Oedipus complex, and the place, role and influence of Freuds key and controversial work Totem and Taboo, both in the history of psychoanalysis and as it connects with anthropology internationally.\n\nFocusing on such key figures as Bronislaw Malinowski, Ernest Jones, Franz Boas, Georges Devereux, Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, Smadja charts the course of the deb.