ISBN:
9780415255547
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Routledge classics
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex and Repression in Savage Society
DDC:
155.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applies his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; The Problem; The Family in Father-right and Mother-right; The First Stage of the Family Drama; Fatherhood in Mother-right; Infantile Sexuality; Apprenticeship to Life; The Sexuality of Later Childhood; Puberty; The Complex of Mother-right; Complex and Myth in Mother-right; Disease and Perversion; Dreams and Deeds; Obscenity and Myth; The Rift Between Psycho-analysis and Social Science; A 'Repressed Complex'; 'The Primordial Cause of Culture'; The Consequences of the Parricide; The Original Parricide Analysed; Complex or Sentiment?
Description / Table of Contents:
The Transition from Nature to CultureThe Family as the Cradle of Nascent Culture; Rut and Mating in Animal and Man; Marital Relations; Parental Love; The Persistence of Family Ties in Man; The Plasticity of Human Instincts; From Instinct to Sentiment; Motherhood and the Temptations of Incest; Authority and Repression; Father-right and Mother-right; Culture and the 'Complex'; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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