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Oedipus in the Trobriands
Author: Spiro Melford E.
Language: EnglishSubject for Oedipus in the Trobriands:
Keywords
Matrilineal Complex; complex; Young Man; boy's; Mother Son Relationship; hostility; Father Son Relationship; matrilineal; Boy’s Hostility; mother; Relative Incidence; son; Mother Son Incest; incest; Brother Sister Incest; oedipal; Incestuous Attachment; theory; Postpartum Sex Taboo; repressed; Trobriand Father; Melford E; Spiro; Brother Sister Taboo; Malinowski’s Claim; Repressed Oedipus Complex; Oedipus Complex; Physiological Paternity; Male Oedipus Complex; Malinowski’s Argument; Sister Incest; Incomplete Repression; Maternal Representation; Postpartum Sex; Unconscious Incestuous Desires; Nuclear Family Incest; Sexual Aversion
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Publication date: 09-2017
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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 enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus complex.
Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Anthropology Department in 1968. His other works include Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.