Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)

Roland Littlewood

Roland Littlewood

University College London, United Kingdom

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Abstract

Anthropological responses to psychoanalysis have largely been to Freud's suggestion of the universality of the Oedipus complex in his book Totem and Taboo, but theories of cultural origins and childhood experience and of the incest taboo have not been able to ignore psychoanalytical theories of early life. The first anthropologists to use psychoanalysis systematically were the Americans, who generally referred to as the culture and personality school (Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Geoffrey Gorer, and Clyde Kluckhohn), which has now been largely superseded by individual scholars working under the rubric of anthropology and psychology or medical anthropology.

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