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- Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture
summary
Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations. Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Chapter 14. Freud, in Spite of Everything
- pp. 243-276
- Chapter 15. Conceiving and Transmitting
- pp. 277-300
- Bibliography
- pp. 345-360
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609174941
Related ISBN(s)
9781611862089, 9781628952674, 9781628962673
MARC Record
OCLC
954105598
Pages
381
Launched on MUSE
2016-07-31
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016