Culture and Identity: the history, theory and practice of Psychological Anthropology

Abstract

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxi LIST OF BOXES xxiii TIME LINE xxvii Part 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Who Am I? The Search for the Self 3 Part 2 CULTURE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY 2. The Discovery of the Individual 19 3. Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes 42 Part 3 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERSONAL BEING 4. How “Other” Is the Other? 73 5. The Psychoanalysis of Culture 112 6. Quandaries and Alternatives 139 7. Creativity and Alterity 168 xvi Brief Contents Part 4 PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS 8. Dialectics of Self and Other 205 9. The Thinking Animal 235 10. Feeling and Being 266 11. Outsiders and Charismatics 296 Part 5 APPLICATIONS 12. Love and Culture 333 13. Being an American 366 BIBLIOGRAPHY 399 INDEX 429