The primal scene in cross‐species and cross‐cultural perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Josephs (0000-0002-2105-6340, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi UniversityGarden City, Long Island, New York 11530USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1263-1287 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00412.x |
| PMID | 22014369 |
| OpenAlex | W1496335140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 54 |
A review of cross-species and cross-cultural research suggests that, throughout most of human behavioral evolution, children may have been enlightened as to the facts of life by observing parental intercourse and then imitating it in sexual rehearsal play in the context of a continuously rising curve of sexual desire and sexual knowledge throughout childhood. Concealment of the primal scene and prohibition of cross-generational, bisexual, and 'polymorphously perverse' childhood sex play may be of relatively recent origin in human cultural evolution, buttressed by the instillation of culturally acquired sexual disgust in sexually conservative cultures. Looking at the primal scene in cross-species and cross-cultural perspectives utilizing the adaptationist framework of contemporary evolutionary biology can challenge normative assumptions that may still be embedded in psychoanalytic theories of species-wide psychosexual development
Context (archaeology · Cross-cultural · Developmental psychology · Disgust · Epistemology · Normative · Population · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychosexual development · Sexual intercourse · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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Young Children's Responses to Expressions of Anger and Affection by Others in the Family
A perspective on disgust.
Mating patterns and reproductive strategies in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)
Selected Cross-Generational Sexual Behavior in Traditional Hawai’i
Chimpanzee Politics
Civilization and Its Discontents
Attachment and Loss. Vol. 1. Attachment
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Attachment is about safety and protection, intersubjectivity is about sharing and social understanding
Jealousy in 6‐Month‐Old Infants
What Ever Happened to Ritualized Homosexuality? Modern Sexual Subjects in Melanesia and Elsewhere
Sexual experiences in early childhood
Understanding human ambivalence about sex
The History of Childhood Sexuality
Primeval Kinship
Oedipus, Darwin, and Freud
The evolved function of the oedipal conflict
Early Childhood Exposure to Parental Nudity and Scenes of Parental Sexuality (“Primal Scenes”)
The relationship between adult sexual adjustment and childhood experiences regarding exposure to nudity, sleeping in the parental bed, and parental attitudes toward sexuality
Mate selection among second generation kibbutz adolescents and adults
The Magical Age of 10
Intentional Attunement
A Genuinely Developmental Theory of Sexual Enjoyment and Its Implications for Psychoanalytic Technique
Can't take my eyes off you
Sexual Attraction and Childhood Association
Meat Is Good to Taboo
Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor
Disgust and related aversions
Children of the People (The Navaho Individual and His Development)
The Emergence of Jealousy in Children 4 Months to 7 Years of Age
The Tibetan Symbolic World. Psychoanalytic Explorations
Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |