Two simple questions regarding cultural anthropology

Giuseppe Iurato (1)

1 Department of Physics

Taking into account some notable recent neuroimaging researches, the first question we treat is a simple consideration of psychoanalytic anthropology which would suggest the existence of possible neurological bases to that fundamental psychoanalytic assumption which is the Freudian OEdipus complex. In such a manner, this first question so argued, is a very brief sketch which has been just thought simply to highlight this multidisciplinary interconnection that, among other things, gives a further corroboration of some chief principles of structural anthropology according to Lévi-Strauss. The second and final question, instead, deals with racism, trying to identify its early motivations and deep roots in the unconscious traces ontophylogenetically left by the so-called Rank's trauma of birth.

Mots clés: romantic and maternal love; neurobiology; racism; Rank birth's trauma; Oedipus complex

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Psychologie

Giuseppe Iurato. Two simple questions regarding cultural anthropology. Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science, 2016, 8 (1), pp.10-15. ⟨hal-01418957⟩