Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy
Lucien Scubla
Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. InGiving 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 Deathseeks 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.
Year:
2016
Edition:
Paperback
Publisher:
Michigan State University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
420
ISBN 10:
1611862086
ISBN 13:
9781611862089
File:
ZIP, 3.19 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016