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Egos and Ogres: Aspects of Psychosexual Development and Cannibalistic Demons in Central Australia
Author(s) -
Eickelkamp Ute
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2004.tb02849.x
Subject(s) - psychosexual development , psychoanalytic theory , ethnography , aggression , sociology , gender studies , anthropology , ethnology , psychoanalysis , history , psychology , developmental psychology
The paper explores from a psychoanalytic point of view some of the many ethnographic references to cannibalistic figures in Aboriginal societies of the Central and Western parts of Australia. The purpose is to show how dynamics of splitting originating in early infancy (love‐aggression, incorporation‐expulsion, inside‐outside, self‐other) continue to exist in culture‐specific expressions of cannibalistic fantasies and incestuous desires.