Paul, Robert A. “Psychoanalytic Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 18 (1989): 177-202.

Abstract

Essay discusses approaches to investigating the influence of unconscious thoughts, affects, and motives on human life. Techniques used by psychoanalysts and anthropologists to study unconscious phenomena are described. Topics discussed include projective tests, dreams, cultural symbolism, gender, and aggression. Psychoanalytic anthropology will progress by forging conceptual links with evolutional theory, neurology, cognitive and developmental psychology, and interpretive studies in linguistics, literature, information and systems theory, and philosophy.