Oedipus in the Trobriands
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Author_Melford E. Spiro
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Boy's Hostility
Boy’s Hostility
Brother Sister Incest
Brother Sister Taboo
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comparative study of family complexes
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cross-cultural psychology
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ethnographic analysis
Father Son Relationship
Freudian universality debate
hostility
incest
Incestuous Attachment
Incomplete Repression
kinship systems
Male Oedipus Complex
Malinowski's Argument
Malinowski's Claim
Malinowski’s Argument
Malinowski’s Claim
Maternal Representation
matrilineal
Matrilineal Complex
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mother
Mother Son Incest
Mother Son Relationship
Nuclear Family Incest
oedipal
Oedipus Complex
Physiological Paternity
Postpartum Sex
Postpartum Sex Taboo
psychoanalytic theory
psychological anthropology
Relative Incidence
repressed
Repressed Oedipus Complex
Sexual Aversion
Sister Incest
son
theory
Trobriand Father
Unconscious Incestuous Desires
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781560006275
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus complex.
Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Anthropology Department in 1968. His other works include Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.
