1st Edition

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations Origin and Positioning within Cultural Complexes

By Elizabeth Brodersen Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed from disorder as polluted/disassociated.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction





Chapter 2: The nature of taboo in indigenous practices





Chapter 3: Taboo, order, disorder, abjection, and dirt.





Chapter 4: Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structures





Chapter 5: The origin and positioning of incest taboo





Chapter 6: Taboo and emotional ambivalence





Chapter 7: Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate states





Chapter 8: Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysis





Chapter 9: Conclusion

Biography

Elizabeth Brodersen is an accredited Training Analyst and Supervisor at the CGJI Zürich. Elizabeth received her doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Essex University, UK in 2014, and works as a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Germany and Switzerland.

"Dr Brodersen has taken a broad interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of taboo to examine it from multiple angles, building on classic and modern treatments of the subject to introduce it into new areas of understanding. In particular, Brodersen carefully weaves together a tapestry on the subject that brings its many facets into view beautifully, showing just how relevant the topic is with respect to human development and psychodynamic clinical theory. Bringing an inclusive but also nuanced and precise approach to the subject of taboo, Brodersen presents an excellent interdisciplinary contribution to the study of ritual, religious/magical thinking and the mind."

Erik Goodwyn MD, Director, Psychotherapy Training, University of Louisville, USA.