Filial Obsessions Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents /

• Main Author: Sangren, P. Steven (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
• Subjects: Psychology.; Ethnology > Asia.; Ethnography.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Asian Culture.; Gender Studies.

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 p...

Table of 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. .