In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to psychoanalysis and the way in which the present fracturing of each of these national traditions and their post-modern turn has led to a new willingness to investigate the relationships between the disciplines and the role of the unconscious in cultural life. They also address important issues of methodology, and present a critical discussion of the concept of culture and the academic specialisation of knowledge. Anthropology and Psychoanalysis will be invaluable reading to all anthropologists and psychoanalysts.
Author(s): Suzette Heald
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Interpreting the implicit: George Devereux and the Greek myths......Page 42
Incestuous fantasy and kinship among the Guro......Page 53
Islam, symbolic hegemony and the problem of bodily expression......Page 67
Trauma and ego-syntonic response: the Holocaust and 'The Newfoundland Young Yids', 1985......Page 83
Dream imagery becomes social experience: the cultural elucidation of dream interpretation......Page 112
Psychoanalysis, unconscious phantasy and interpretation......Page 127
Gendered persons: dialogues between anthropology and psychoanalysis......Page 144
Lacanian ethnopsychoanalysis......Page 166
Lacan and anthropology: comments on Chapters 8 and 9......Page 176
Indulgent fathers and collective male violence......Page 184
Every man a hero: Oedipal themes in Gisu circumcision......Page 197
Symbolic homosexuality and cultural theory: the unconscious meaning of sister exchange among the Gimi of Highland New Guinea......Page 223
Psychoanalysis as content: reflections on Chapters 11, 12 and 13......Page 238
Index......Page 252
