Oedipus in the Trobriands

ISBN-13: 9781138529021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Melford E. Spiro

Opis

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise

Spis treści

1: The Problem Posed; 2: The Trobriand Matrilineal Complex: A Critique; 3: The Trobriand Oedipus Complex: A Hypothesis; 4: Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Ontogenetic Determinants; 5: Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Psychological Concomitants; 6: Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?

O autorze

Melford E. Spiro