The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France /

The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France /

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"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 We...

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Author / Creator: Robcis, Camille.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Influence.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude > Influence.
Levi-Strauss, Claude > Influence.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Domestic relations > France > Philosophy.
Families > France > Philosophy.
Family policy > France.
Psychoanalysis and anthropology > France.
Sex role > Government policy > France.
Domestic relations > Philosophy
Families > Philosophy
Family policy
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Psychoanalysis and anthropology
Sex role > Government policy
France
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • The family 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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