Oedipus in the Trobriands
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| Author | Melford Spiro |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Oedipus complex |
| Published | 1982 (The University of Chicago Press) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 978-1560006275 |
Oedipus in the Trobriands is a 1982 book about the Oedipus complex by anthropologist Melford Spiro.[1]
Summary
Spiro discusses the Oedipus complex; he notes that there is already a vast literature on the topic.[1] Influenced by psychoanalysis, he attempts to refute Bronislaw Malinowski's skepticism about the applicability of Sigmund Freud's ideas to the Trobriand Islanders, using Malinowski's own materials.[2]
Reception
Historian Peter Gay writes in his Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988) that Spiro's book is "brilliant".[2]
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