Visions Capitales
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9782711836680 (2711836681)
Publisher: Réunion des musées nationaux
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
A remarkable examination of culture's fascination with severed heads. Kristeva begins with pre-Homo sapiens skull cults, and makes a very convincing argument that Freud failed to see the feminine in the totemic meal. If, for Freud, the eating of the father's brains signified the sons' desire to assi...