Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy: The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order

by J.C. Smith

This book offers an explanation of the development of human social order in terms of psychoanalytic theory. An original argument in social theory, it takes on patriarchy and attempts to uncover its inner dynamics and, at the same time, tries to redirect psychoanalytic social theory in a more collective direction. In so doing, it offers a critique of the subordination of women by men within the bounds of a scholarly treatment of society that remains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081477959X
• ISBN13: 9780814779590
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.