Sex and Repression in Savage Society (Routledge Classics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 29, 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415255547
First sentence: Psycho-analysis was born from medical practice, and its theories are mainly psychological, but it stands in close relation to two other branches of learning-biology and the science of society.
Table of contents: title: The formation of a complex. 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 -- The mirror of tradition. Complex and myth in mother-right -- Disease and perversion -- Dreams and deeds -- Obscenity and myth -- Psycho-analysis and anthropology. The rift between psychoanalysis and social science -- A 'repressed complex' -- 'The primordial cause of culture' -- The consequences of the parricide -- The original parricide analysed -- Complex or sentiment? -- Instinct and culture. The transition from nature to culture -- The 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'.