Oedipus in the Trobriands

By Melford E. Spiro

Book Overview

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226769895
• ISBN13: 9780226769899
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.