Violence and the sacred /
This study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1977]
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Table of Contents:
- Sacrifice
- The sacrificial crisis
- Oedipus and the surrogate victim
- The origins of myth and ritual
- Dionysus
- From mimetic desire to the monstrous double
- Freud and the Oedipus complex
- Totem and Taboo and the incest prohibition
- Levi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws
- The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution
- The unity of all rites.