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The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France

Title
The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis.
Author
Robcis, Camille.
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.
Subject
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude > Influence
  • Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 > Influence
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009
  • Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude
  • Family policy > France
  • Sex role > Government policy > France
  • Families > France > Philosophy
  • Domestic relations > France > Philosophy
  • Psychoanalysis and anthropology > France
  • Familie
  • Familienpolitik
  • Einfluss
  • Anthropologie
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Domestic relations > Philosophy
  • Families > Philosophy
  • Family policy
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Psychoanalysis and anthropology
  • Sex role > Government policy
  • France
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index.
Contents
Familialism and the republican social contract -- Kinship and the structuralist social contract -- The circulation of structuralism in the French public sphere -- The "quiet revolution" in family policy and family law -- Fatherless societies and anti-Oedipal philosophies -- Alternative kinships and republican structuralism -- Epilogue : kinship, ethics, and the nation.
Call Number
JFE 15-8175
ISBN
  • 9780801451294 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801451299 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780801478772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801478774 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012039150
OCLC
813690935
Author
Robcis, Camille.
Title
The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-8175
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