Our Two-Track Minds

Rehabilitating Freud on Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Robert A. Paul, USA) Paul, Professor or Dr. Robert A. (Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Anthropology, Emory University, or Robert A. Paul, Esther Rashkin

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While many of Freud’s original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies. Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-14
Mått142 x 218 x 74 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePsychoanalytic Horizons
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501370021

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Robert A. Paul is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, USA, and an Adjunct Professor in the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is the author of three books, including Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud’s Myth (1996), which won the Heinz Hartmann Award in Psychoanalysis, the Bryce Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology, and the Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. Dr. Paul is one of a very few people trained both in anthropology and in clinical psychoanalysis.

Introduction: The Stream and the RoadPart I. DROSS INTO GOLD: Recuperating Freud’s Social Theory1. Freud’s Theory of Society2. Biology and Culture in Civilization and Its Discontents3. Yes, the Primal Crime Did Take PlacePART II. LIKE RABBITS OR LIKE ROBOTS? Sexual versus Non-Sexual Reproduction in the Western Tradition4. The Genealogy of Civilization5. Sons or Sonnets?6. The Pygmalion Complex PART III. OUR TWO TRACK-MINDS: A Dual Inheritance Perspective on Some Classic Psychoanalytic Issues7. Incest Avoidance: Oedipal and Preoedipal, Natural and Cultural8. Sexuality: Biological Fact or Cultural Construction? 9. Consciousness, Language, and Dual InheritanceReferencesIndex

Based on his dual inheritance theory, Robert Paul provides us with an excellent integration of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, evolutionary theory, and cultural anthropology, without minimizing the contributions of each of them. This thought-provoking book shows ways to bridge the gap between the disciplines and how this opens up new insights and approaches for psychoanalytic theory-building.