Love and Sex in 12 Cultures

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Endleman, Robert

Psychology & Counseling

Psyche Pr

Love and Sex in Twelve Cultures

Self-Help

Relationships

Eros and Evolution: Prospects for Paso

A noted psychoanalyst here gives a profusely illustrated essay for a general audience, on the expressions of infantile desire of the breast, fear & hatred of the breast & the mother, & the terrors of abandonment in infancy & childhood, as all of these have been developed & transformed in the unconscious. The evidence presented here focuses on the creative works of a number of major artists, scientists, playwrights, filmmakers, naturalists, & philosophers. In masterful psychoanalytic detective work the author shows the common themes in Shaw's PYGMALION & the movie JAWS, the work & biographies of philosopher/mathematician Rene Descartes, artist William Hogarth (weird use of perspective), & agonized artists Munch, Utrillo, Giacometti, & naturalist John James Audubon. He explores the psychic meaning of birds in many cultures & artists & prehistoric "Venus" figurines. A chapter explores a "Trio of Misogynists"--G.B. Shaw, Alfred Hitchcock, & Charlie Chaplin--showing the role of early maternal maiming in the development of their personalities & their art. This is a masterful blend of psychoanalysis, prehistory, science & art. Publisher presents another variation on analysis of love: cf. LOVE & SEX IN 12 CULTURES. (PSYCHE PRESS 1989).

Love and Hate in the Nursery and Beyond

Eisenbud, Jule

Mental Health

Psychoanalytic Theory &gt; essays. Anthropology, Cultural &gt; essays. Psychoanalysis and culture. Ethnopsychology.

Psychoanalytic Anthropology After Freud: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Freud's Death

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The People's Temple led by Jim Jones, & the Manson Family led by Charles Manson, were two of the most spectacularly destructive apocalyptic cults of recent decades. They were also remarkably similar. At Jonestown in 1978, Jones led over 900 community members into a mass suicide/massacre at his command. In Los Angeles in 1969, Charles Manson led his followers, dubbed "The Manson Family" into serial murders of nine victims in the name of a weird ideology of race war. In each cult the male leader was obsessed with sex & exercised sexual domination over the members of the community. In each, the leader has complex delusions & fantasies about race. Each leader also exerted mesmerizing, totalitarian control over his followers, so that they succumbed to a kind of collective madness & committed mass suicide in one case & irrational murders in the other. This book traces the development of each of these movements, their parallels, & the pervasive themes of race, sexuality, & collective madness in each of them, in the context of the trends in American society & culture of that period. The author Robert Endleman is a retired professor of sociology from Adelphi University. He is the author of LOVE & SEX IN TWELVE CULTURES (Psyche Press 1989) & many other books.

Jonestown and the Manson Family: Race, Sexuality, and Collective Madness

Death & Grief

Jonathan

Crocker, Jonathan

This is a psychoanalytically informed autobiography of a scientist with a homosexual history who rejects gay liberation views of male homosexuality. Rather he sees it as a pathological developmental disorder, very much in line with the classic psychoanalytical view. A notable landmark is Jonathan's development of close non-sexual male-male friendship of an intensity rare in this society. This book is a sensitive commentary by a polymath on the dilemmas in the acquisition of masculinity. It shows the falseness of either-or thinking with airtight categories of straight & gay. He instructs us: "homosexual" is an adjective, not a noun. And he demonstrates the scientific absurdity of the idea that gay people are "born that way." The book consists of many stories: personal history, family history, cultural history, intellectual history, & a tour de force on art history.

Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalysis and India

Kakar, Sudhir

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