 | Brian Morris - Religion - 1987 - 386 pages
...driven out," Freud suggested that human beings had originally lived in this kind of patriarchal family. "There is only a violent, jealous father who keeps...females for himself and drives away the growing sons"; then "one day the expelled brothers joined forces, slew and ate the father, and thus put an end to... | |
 | John Peter, John Desmond Peter - Drama - 1987 - 400 pages
...society. Freud sees the beginnings of society in a Darwinian primal horde, ruled by 'a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up'. One day, Freud surmises, these brothers killed their father, and, 'cannibal... | |
 | Catherine Bell - Social Science - 1997 - 368 pages
...was slaughtered and eaten by its own clan, with Charles Darwin's notion of the primal horde, in which "there is only a violent, jealous father who keeps...the females for himself and drives away the growing sons."65 Using these ideas, Freud developed a compelling scenario of the early history of the human... | |
 | Carol Delaney - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 356 pages
...13:161). FREUD'S ORIGIN MYTH The story in essence is as follows: Once upon a time there was "a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up. . . . One day the brothers who had been driven out came together, killed... | |
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - History - 2001 - 442 pages
...text in fact bears the trace of its very repression Freud supposes a primal patriarch, a "violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up" (Totem and Taboo 202). This father, completely free and independent, was... | |
 | Anne Norton - Philosophy - 2002 - 220 pages
...authority. Darwin speculated that human society consisted, in die first instance, of "a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up."16 One day, Freud continues, "the brothers who had been driven out came together,... | |
 | Robert M. Strozier - Philosophy - 2002 - 308 pages
...situation from which the narrative originates: "we find there [in the primal horde] ... a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up" (ibid., 141). Freud calls this the "earliest state of society" but at the... | |
 | Thomas DiPiero - Social Science - 2002 - 356 pages
...characterizing the son's relationship to the paternal figure. The well-known myth, in which a "violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up," relates the sons' rebellion against the father: "One day, the brothers who... | |
 | Timothy A. Robinson - Philosophy - 2002 - 452 pages
...place for the beginnings of totemism in Darwin's primal horde. All that we find there is a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up. This earliest state of society has never been an object of observation. The... | |
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All that we find there is a violent and jealous father who keeps all the females for himself and drives away his sons as they grow up. 
