The law of kinship [electronic resource] : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis.
Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.Description: xiv, 301 pISBN:- 9780801451294 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801478772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801468407 (e-book)
- 306.850944 23
- HQ624 .R63 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The family 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.
"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude L�evi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.