| Description |
xxv, 354 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1982 |
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Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1982
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Lecture One - Representation and Symbol Formation in a Psychoanalytic Anthropology -- 1. Unfreezing the Text, Releasing the Narrative -- 2. Dromena and Cathartic Rituals: Regression and Progression in Collective Representations -- Killing and the Resurrection -- "Distortion" in the Work of Culture -- The Limits of Cultural Elaboration -- 3. Symbolic Remove and the Work of Culture -- Lecture Two - Oedipus: The Paradigm and its Hindu Rebirth -- 1. Relativizing the Oedipus Complex: The Trobriand Case -- 2. Further Steps in Relativization: The Indian Oedipus Revisited -- Freud and the Indian Oedipus: An Imaginary Journey -- 3. Universalizing the Oedipus Complex: Argument with Wittgenstein -- 4. The Indian Oedipus in Sri Lanka: Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha Revisited -- The Potent Pulleyar of Pul Eliya: Ethnographic Doubt -- Myth Associations: Validation in Interpretation -- Back to Leach: Motivation and Structure -- 5. Change, History, and the Forgetting of Pulleyar -- Debate and the Historicity of Charter -- The Buddhist Form of Life and the Emergence of the Father Killer -- Lecture Three - The Parricide in Buddhist History -- 1. Myth Models of the Parricide: Oedipus in Sri Lanka -- Parricide and Fratricide: The Story of King Asoka -- Vasubandhu's Oedipus -- 2. Symbolic Parricide: The Conscience of Dutthagamani Abhaya -- 3. The True Parricide: Kasyapa of Sigiriya, the "Lion Mountain" -- What Happened Then? A Brief Afterword -- Conscience and Culture: The Parricidal King in Buddhist History -- The Demonic Oedipus: Ethics, Conscience, and Culture -- Cosmos and Psyche -- 4. Psychic Structures of the Long Run: The Marriage of the Hero -- Appendix: Rajasinha I -- Lecture Four - Freud and Anthropology: The Place Where Three Roads Meet -- 1. The First Intersubjectivity: The Anthropologist and the Native -- 2. The Second Intersubjectivity: Participation and Observation -- 3. The Third Intersubjectivity and the Idea of a Metatheory -- The Third Intersubjectivity Pursued: Metatheory and Thick Description -- Validation in Psychoethnographic Interpretation -- The Expansion of the Third Intersubjectivity: The Idea of a "Cultural Consciousness" -- 4. Language and Symbolic Form in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Notes |
Based on the 1982 Lewis Henry Morgan lectures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and indexes |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
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Buddhism -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Hinduism -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
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Hinduism -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Psychoanalysis and culture -- Sri Lanka.
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Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Symbolism (Psychology) -- Case studies.
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| LC no. |
90010904 |
| ISBN |
0226615987 |
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0226615995 (paperback) |
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