Filial Obsessions [electronic resource] : Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents / by P. Steven Sangren.

By: Sangren, P. Steven [author.]Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture, Mind, and SocietyPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: XVI, 381 p. 30 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319504933Subject(s): Psychology | Ethnology -- Asia | Ethnography | Sociology | Sex (Psychology) | Gender expression | Gender identity | Cross-cultural psychology | Psychology | Cross Cultural Psychology | Asian Culture | Gender Studies | EthnographyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 155.8 LOC classification: BF1-990Online resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
1. Nezha, A Chinese Superboy -- 2. "Filial Piety" and Cultural Difference -- 3. Spirit Possession, Family Issues, and the Production of Gods Biographies -- 4. Ambivalence: The Fathers We Have and the Fathers We Wish to Have -- 5. The Social Production of Desire -- 6. Ancestor Worship, The Confucian Father, and Filial Piety -- 7. Woman as Symptom: Female Subjectivity in Chinese Patriliny -- 8. A Concluding Manifesto: Cultures as Modes of Production and Desire. .
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture. It utilizes a unique synthesis of Marxian and psychoanalytic insights in arguing that Chinese patriliny is best understood as, simultaneously, "a mode of production of desire" and as "instituted fantasy." The argument advances through discussions and analyses of kinship, family, gender, filial piety, ritual, and (especially) mythic narratives. In each of these domains, P. Steven Sangren addresses the complex sentiments and ambivalences associated with filial relations. Unlike most earlier studies which approach Chinese patriliny and filial piety as irreducible markers of cultural difference, Sangren argues that Chinese patriliny is better approached as a topic of critical inquiry in its own right. .

1. Nezha, A Chinese Superboy -- 2. "Filial Piety" and Cultural Difference -- 3. Spirit Possession, Family Issues, and the Production of Gods Biographies -- 4. Ambivalence: The Fathers We Have and the Fathers We Wish to Have -- 5. The Social Production of Desire -- 6. Ancestor Worship, The Confucian Father, and Filial Piety -- 7. Woman as Symptom: Female Subjectivity in Chinese Patriliny -- 8. A Concluding Manifesto: Cultures as Modes of Production and Desire. .

This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture. It utilizes a unique synthesis of Marxian and psychoanalytic insights in arguing that Chinese patriliny is best understood as, simultaneously, "a mode of production of desire" and as "instituted fantasy." The argument advances through discussions and analyses of kinship, family, gender, filial piety, ritual, and (especially) mythic narratives. In each of these domains, P. Steven Sangren addresses the complex sentiments and ambivalences associated with filial relations. Unlike most earlier studies which approach Chinese patriliny and filial piety as irreducible markers of cultural difference, Sangren argues that Chinese patriliny is better approached as a topic of critical inquiry in its own right. .

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