Sex and Repression in Savage Society

By: Bronislaw Malinowski

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Paperback | 17 May 2001 | Edition Number 2

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During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea.

By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as 'participant-observation'. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a huge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology. In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applied his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood. In so doing, he both utilized and challenged the psychoanalytical methods being popularized at the time in Europe by Freud and others.

The result is a unique and brilliant book that, though revolutionary when first published, has since become a standard work on the psychology of sex.

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'No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science.' - Robert Redfield

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Preface
The Formation of a Complex
The Problem	p. 3
The Family in Father-right and Mother-right	p. 8
The First State of the Family Drama	p. 16
Fatherhood in Mother-right	p. 22
Infantile Sexuality	p. 28
Apprenticeship to Life	p. 34
The Sexuality of Later Childhood	p. 40
Puberty	p. 48
The Complex of Mother-right	p. 59
The Mirror of Tradition
Complex and Myth in Mother-right	p. 69
Disease and Perversion	p. 71
Dreams and Deeds	p. 76
Obscenity and Myth	p. 85
Psycho-analysis and Anthropology
The Rift Between Psycho-analysis and Social Science	p. 109
A 'Repressed Complex'	p. 114
'The Primordial Cause of Culture'	p. 118
The Consequences of the Parricide	p. 123
The Original Parricide Analysed	p. 127
Complex or Sentiment?	p. 137
Instinct and Culture
The Transition from Nature to Culture	p. 143
The Family as the Cradle of Nascent Culture	p. 147
Rut and Mating in Animal and Man	p. 154
Marital Relations	p. 160
Parental Love	p. 165
The Persistence of Family Ties in Man	p. 173
The Plasticity of Human Instincts	p. 178
From Instinct to Sentiment	p. 181
Motherhood and the Temptations of Incest	p. 191
Authority and Repression	p. 199
Father-right and Mother-right	p. 206
Culture and the 'Complex'	p. 214
Index	p. 219
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