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The Non-Meaning of Incest or, How Natural Culture Is
- Postmodern Culture
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 20, Number 2, January 2010
- 10.1353/pmc.2010.0004
- Article
- Additional Information
Using the theory of kinship as an example, this essay argues that the dominant understanding of cultural construction is inadequate. The author argues that recent cultural theory lacks an account of the unconscious, that recent psychoanalytic thought lacks a theory of kinship, and that both are in fact necessary for a post-structuralist understanding of the proposition that all social norms are culturally constructed.