The Oedipus Complex: Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate - Paperback
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This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Éric Smadja explores the complicated historical and epistemological conditions leading up to the emergence of the conflict between the two disciplines.
Éric Smadja is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst (Paris and London). He is a member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He is also an anthropologist and an associate member of the American Anthropological Association. He was awarded the IPA's Prize for "Exceptional Contribution Made to Psychoanalytical Research" (2007). He is the author of several books, including The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story (Routledge).
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