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Symbolic wounds; puberty rites and the envious male.

Title
Symbolic wounds; puberty rites and the envious male.
Author
Bettelheim, Bruno.
Publication
Glencoe, Ill., Free Press [©1954]

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Description
286 pages
Subject
  • Puberty rites
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Puberty
  • Men
  • Puberty
  • Men
  • Adolescent
  • men (male humans)
  • Puberty rites
  • Overgangsriten
  • Puberteit
  • Initiatie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
Contents
Carved ancestral figure from New Ireland / by Covarrubias -- Acknowledgments -- Introitus -- Clinical observations -- Challenge to theory -- Theory versus observation -- Toward a new theory -- Meaning of initiation -- Monotheism and the castrating father -- Fertility, the basic cult -- Castration, circumcision and the great mother -- Australian rites -- The men-women -- The secret of men -- Girls' rites -- Envoy -- References -- Index.
LCCN
54008451
OCLC
  • ocm14667317
  • 14667317
  • SCSB-235661
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library