Oedipus in the Trobriands

Oedipus in the Trobriands

Cover of the first edition
Author Melford Spiro
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]

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Spiro 1982. p. ix.
  2. 1 2 Gay 1995. p. 766.

Bibliography

Books
  • Gay, Peter (1995). Freud: A Life for Our Time. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-48638-2. 
  • Spiro, Melford E. (1982). Oedipus in the Trobriands. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-76989-5. 
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