Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture

Book Overview

In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to psychoanalysis and the way in which the present fracturing of each of these national traditions and their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415097436
• ISBN13: 9780415097437
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"