Psychoanalytic Anthropology After Freud: Essays on the 50th Anniversary of Freud's Death

This collection of essays by eleven leading scholars shows how far this interdisciplinary field has come in recent years. The Introductory essay by David H. Spain, a psychoanalytically-trained University of Washington Anthropology Professor, shows the ways of fusion of anthropology's field-&-theory with psychoanalysis' clinic-&-theory, a mating many in both fields had thought impossible. Many anthropologists like Spain now get full psychoanalytic institute training. The papers also display the variety of ways practitioners of this interdisciplinary field approach the craft. Authors explore the universality of "oedipality" (Spain), primary process reconsidered (Melford Spiro), psychoanalysis & evolution (Christopher Badcock), shame & culture (Benjamin Kilborne), psychoanalysis & materialism (Allen Johnson), Anglo-American values in recent psychoanalysis (Suzanne Kirschner) & religion in psychoanalysis (John Ingham). Several papers demonstrate (in effect) the applicability of psychoanalytic psychology to allegedly far afield cultures like Nigeria (JoAnn Campbell), India (B.K. Ramanujam), the Gusii of Kenya (Robert LeVine), & the Tamil of South India (Margaret Trawick), & refute the alleged ethnocentricity of Psychoanalysis.Spain, David H. is the author of 'Psychoanalytic Anthropology After Freud: Essays on the 50th Anniversary of Freud's Death' with ISBN 9780962288548 and ISBN 0962288543.