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

"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Levi-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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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 301 p.
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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.