The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France /

The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France /

"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robcis, Camille
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude > Influence.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Influence.
Family policy > France.
Sex role > Government policy > France.
Families > France > Philosophy.
Domestic relations > France > Philosophy.
Psychoanalysis and anthropology > France.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.