Giving Life, Giving Death - Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Lucien Scubla is a researcher at the Institut Marcel Mauss of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a study on Claude Lévi-Strauss and wrote the preface for the French translation of Social Origins, a posthumous work by A. M. Hocart. Klappentext Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud's Totem and Taboo , Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life. Zusammenfassung Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity.

Product details

• Authors: Lucien Scubla, Lucien/ Debevoise Scubla
• Assisted by: Malcolm B Debevoise (Translation), Malcolm B. DeBevoise (Translation)
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781611862089
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-208-9
• No. of pages: 381
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis &; Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day