The universality of the Oedipus complex
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https://doi.org/10.60106/rsbppa.v5i1.112Keywords:
Oedipus complex, Incest, Ethology, AnthropologyAbstract
The author briefly reports Darwin’s Natural Selection Theory and its implications in the different types of relationships among some animal species. He pays closer attention to gorillas, using research conducted by Jane Goodall. She and other researchers have shown that big apes and other animals rarely have incestuous practices. He details the famous divergence between Malinowski and Jones with more recent data by the great anthropologist Meyer Fortes and emphasises the ingenious hypothesis by the anthropologist Godelier concerning the interdiction of incest.
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