Oedipus in the Trobriands
Cover of the first edition | |
Author | Melford Spiro |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Oedipus complex |
Published | 1982 (The University of Chicago Press) |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 200 |
ISBN | 978-1560006275 |
Oedipus in the Trobriands is a 1982 book about the Oedipus complex by anthropologist Melford Spiro.[1]
Summary
Spiro discusses the Oedipus complex; he notes that there is already a vast literature on the topic.[1] Influenced by psychoanalysis, he attempts to refute Bronislaw Malinowski's skepticism about the applicability of Sigmund Freud's ideas to the Trobriand Islanders, using Malinowski's own materials.[2]
Reception
Historian Peter Gay writes in his Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988) that Spiro's book is "brilliant".[2]
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