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Kracke, W.H. (1986). Freud and Anthropology. A History and Reappraisal. (Psychological Issues Monograph 55.): By Edwin R. Wallace, IV. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1983. 306 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 55:174-179.

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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:174-179

Freud and Anthropology. A History and Reappraisal. (Psychological Issues Monograph 55.): By Edwin R. Wallace, IV. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1983. 306 pp.

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It has been fashionable in recent years to argue that Freud's theoretical writing, at least his metapsychology, was rooted primarily in an underlying neurological model. His interest in anthropology has always been seen as a peripheral pursuit, an exercise in extending psychoanalytic ideas beyond the clinical domain in which they were being formulated. Edwin Wallace turns all this around. He argues that anthropology was not only a consuming interest of Freud's, but one that played a significant part in the formulation of some of his major clinical concepts.

As a historical study of Freud's thinking, Wallace's work is an impressive contribution to the history of ideas. The well-argued thesis just mentioned certainly must have an impact on the exegesis of Freud's metapsychology, both for an understanding of its place in the history of ideas and as a part of the rethinking of metapsychological issues that is in progress these days.

But Wallace's work aspires to more than this. Wall

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