219 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
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Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is... Read more
1: The Problem Posed; 2: The Trobriand Matrilineal Complex: A Critique; 3: The Trobriand Oedipus Complex: A Hypothesis; 4: Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Ontogenetic Determinants; 5: Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Psychological Concomitants; 6: Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?
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Melford E. Spiro
