Primal Scenes

This essay considers the contributions that Primitive Marriage makes to psychoanalytic theory and the history of sexuality. It also explores the ways that Kathy Psomiades’s emphasis on the Victorian anthropology of marriage complicates our understanding of the histories of structuralism and critical theory in the present.

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Victorian Literature and Culture
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150325000105
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Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
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Primal Scenes

Zachary Samalin
Victorian Literature and Culture
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
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Primal Scenes

Zachary Samalin
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This essay considers the contributions that Primitive Marriage makes to psychoanalytic theory and the history of sexuality. It also explores the ways that Kathy Psomiades’s emphasis on the Victorian anthropology of marriage complicates our understanding of the histories of structuralism and critical theory in the present.

Victorian Literature and CultureVol. 53(2)
New York University (US)
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Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
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