Ebook: Childhood and Society

Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a (then) new approach to cultural anthropology, this book is considered a landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The author examines the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation.;Afterthoughts 1985 -- pt. 1. Childhood and the modalities of social life. Relevance and relativity in the case history -- The theory of infantile sexuality -- pt. 2. Childhood in two American Indian tribes. Hunters across the prairie -- Fishermen along a salmon river -- pt. 3. The growth of the ego. Early ego failure : Jean -- Toys and reasons -- Eight ages of man -- pt. 4. Youth and the evolution of identity. Reflections on the American identity -- The legend of Hitler's childhood -- The legend of Maxim Gorkey's youth -- Conclusion : Beyond anxiety.