Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations: Origin and Positioning Within Cultural Complexes

ISBN-13: 9780367660499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Elizabeth Brodersen

Opis

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally?

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The nature of taboo in indigenous practices

Chapter 3: Taboo, order, disorder, abjection, and dirt.

Chapter 4: Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structures

Chapter 5: The origin and positioning of incest taboo

Chapter 6: Taboo and emotional ambivalence

Chapter 7: Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate states

Chapter 8: Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysis

Chapter 9: Conclusion

O autorze

Elizabeth Brodersen is an accredited Training Analyst and Supervisor at the CGJI Zürich. Elizabeth received her doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Essex University, UK in 2014, and works as a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Germany and Switzerland.