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The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France
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The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis.
ISBN
9780801451294 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801451299 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801478772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801478774 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index.
Contents
Familialism and the republican social contract
Kinship and the structuralist social contract
The circulation of structuralism in the French public sphere
The "quiet revolution" in family policy and family law
Fatherless societies and anti-Oedipal philosophies
Alternative kinships and republican structuralism
Epilogue : kinship, ethics, and the nation.
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