Exploring the Interplay of Edward Sapir's Anthropology and Lacanian Psychoanalysis - by Lenart Kodre (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book reevaluates Edward Sapir's groundbreaking perspective on culture and personality alongside Jacques Lacan's theories, challenging traditional anthropological discourse.

Book Synopsis

This book reevaluates Edward Sapir's groundbreaking perspective on culture and personality alongside Jacques Lacan's theories, challenging traditional anthropological discourse.

Review Quotes

"Not much attention has been paid to the possible connection between the linguistically based anthropology proposed by Edward Sapir, one of the founding fathers of anthropology, and the work of the revolutionary psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The thorough research accomplished by Lenart Kodre is breaking new ground. His investigations circumscribe the numerous points of intersection between the two thinkers, exploring the ways in which Sapir's conception of relations between the individual and culture can be envisaged in a new light through Lacan's concepts of the subject, the knot of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, the logic of desire and fantasy etc. Reflections on these encounters provide an expansive prospect of psychoanalytic contribution to anthropology, initiated by Freud's Totem and Taboo. Kodre's project is neither that of collapsing the distance between the two nor to keep the detachment of two separate domains, but to find the unexpected moments of truth in their intersections. This is a courageous and very necessary work."

About the Author

Lenart Kodre is an anthropologist and earned his Ph.D. in 2016.