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CHAPTERTITLE I
FREUD AND CULTURE
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PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
Gennaro Saragnano (Rome), Chair and General Editor; Leticia Glocer Fiorini
(Buenos Aires), Consultant; Samuel Arbiser (Buenos Aires); Paulo Cesar Sandler
(São Paulo); Christian Seulin (Lyon); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal); Gail S. Reed
(New York); Catalina Bronstein (London); Rhoda Bawdekar (London),
Ex-officio as Publications Officer; Paul Crake (London): IPA Executive Director
(ex-officio)
Other titles in the Series include
(For a full listing, see our website www.karnacbooks.com)
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytical Perspective
edited by Marilia Aisenstein and Lisa Rappoport de Aisemberg
Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work
André Green
Primitive Agony and Symbolization
René Roussillon
In the Traces of Our Name: The Influence of Given Names in Life
Juan Eduardo Tesone
Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History,
and Trauma
Marion Michel Oliner
Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic
Approaches
Carlos Guillermo Bigliani and Rodolfo Moguilansky
Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice: A Relational Process Approach
Juan Tubert-Oklander
Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativiy and Analytic
Practice
edited by Gabriela Goldstein
The Female Body: Inside and Outside
edited by Ingrid Moeslein-Teising and Frances Thomson-Salo
Death and Identity: Being and the Psycho-Sexual Drama
Michel de M’Uzan
Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and
Theoretical Contributions
edited by Howard B. Levine and Gail S. Reed
Hostile and Malignant Prejudice
Cyril Levitt
Time for Change
edited by Marina Altmann de Litvan
Play, Gender, Therapy
edited by Nellie L. Thompson
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FREUD AND CULTURE
Eric Smadja
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
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First published in 2015 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2015 to Eric Smadja
The rights of Eric Smadja to be identified as the author of this work have been
asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents
Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, e lectronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.
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A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78220 208 0
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR vii
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD ix
INTRODUCTION xi
CHAPTER ONE
Freud’s society 1
CHAPTER TWO
About society, groups, and community 15
CHAPTER THREE
Freudian culture 35
CHAPTER FOUR
Ideas and criticisms of sociologists and anthropologists 83
CHAPTER FIVE
The Freudian notion of Kulturarbeit 111
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BY WAY OF CONCLUSION 161
REFERENCES 169
INDEX 175
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric Smadjais a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a member of the Société
psychanalytique de Paris and of the International Psychoanalytical
Association; a couples psychoanalyst and also an anthropologist, as
well as associate member of the American Anthropological Association,
and member of the Society for psychological anthropology.
He was awarded a prize by the International Psychoanalytical
Association in 2007 for an “Exceptional Contribution made to psycho-
analytical research”.
He is the author of various books: Laughter(Presses Universitaires
de France, 4th edition 2011); College Publications, 2013; The Œdipus
Complex, crystallizer of the debate between psychoanalysis and anthropology
(Presses Universitaires de France, 2009); The Human Couple: A multi-
dimensional history (Presses Universitaires de France, 2011); and
Couples in Psychoanalysis(Ed.) (Presses Universitaires de France, 2013).
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SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
The Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical
Association continues, with this volume, the series “Psychoanalytic
Ideas and Applications”.
The aim of this series is to focus on the scientific production of
significant authors whose works are outstanding contributions to the
development of the psychoanalytic field and to set out relevant ideas
and themes, generated during the history of psychoanalysis, that
deserve to be known and discussed by present psychoanalysts.
The relationship between psychoanalytic ideas and their applica-
tions has to be put forward from the perspective of theory, clinical
practice, technique, and research so as to maintain their validity for
contemporary psychoanalysis.
The Publication Committee’s objective is to share these ideas with
the psychoanalytic community and with professionals in other related
disciplines, in order to expand their knowledge and generate a
productive interchange between the text and the reader.
Freud and Culture, authored by Eric Smadja (a well-known French
psychoanalyst with strong and extensive interest in anthropology), is
an original volume that deeply explores the path Freud went along
while thinking—throughout his whole life—about culture and society
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