Devereux, George, 1908-

Ethnopsychoanalysis : Psychoanalysis and anthropology as complementary frames of reference / George Devereux. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1978. - xii, 334 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliogr. references and indexes.

The argument. - A conceptual scheme of society. - Inside and outside. - Culture and the unconscious. - The logical foundations of culture of personality studies. - Two types of modal personality models. - Ethnic identity. - Ethnopsychoanalytic reflections on the notion of kinship. - Antagonistic acculturation.- Dream learning and individual ritual differences in Mohave shamanism. - Cultural thought models in primitive and modern psychiatric theories. - Time: history vs. chronicle.

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Personality and culture.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Psychoanalysis and anthropology.
Ethnopsychology.