Book Name-"Sex and culture [electronic resource"
Author Name- J. D. (Joseph Daniel)Unwin, M.C.,Ph.D (CANTAB.)
File Type-PDF
Pages-710
PDF Quality-Best
PDF Size-55mb
Book Type-English
Publication date-1934
Publisher-London : Oxford university press, H. Milford
PREFACE THE writing of this treatise was originally completed in 1932; but there
were several reasons why it should not be published immediately; and I put it away, and wrote an Abstract of it. This Abstract, entitled Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour (Messrs. Williams & Norgate, Ltd.), was published in October 1933. The little book was offered as a mere summary of a future volume, and the complete work is now presented.
If I may judge from the nature of the welcome extended to the Abstract, some readers may be disappointed to find that so large a part of the complete treatise is devoted to uncivilized peoples. I too have a greater personal interest in the ideas and behaviour of civilized societies; and, if I had been concerned with the mere proving of a thesis in the sense in which the word is understood by those who adopt comparative methods), I should probably have dismissed uncivilized societies with the eclectic summary that is usually given to them, and confined my serious discussion to some highly selected historical data. But I have not tried to prove a thesis, and have none to prove; I have merely conducted an inquiry, and in such a case the importance attached to any society, civilized or uncivilized, must be in proportion to our knowledge of it. I wish to emphasize this. When I started these researches I sought to establish nothing, and had no idea of what the result would be. With care-free open-mindedness I decided to test, by a reference to human records, a somewhat startling conjecture that had been made by the analytical psychologists. This suggestion was that if the social regulations forbid direct satisfaction of the sexual impulses the emotional conflict is expressed in another way, and that what we call '...
Collect the PDF 'Sex and culture [electronic resource'
Or
Link- 2
No comments:
Post a Comment