- Hardcover: 168 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (14 Nov 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0313262675
- ISBN-13: 978-0313262678
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,023,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?Abram Kardiner was a pioneer in the application of ego-oriented, adaptational psychodynamics to problems in the social sciences. A medically trained psychoanalyst, he had benefitted during his early years from graduate course work in anthropology with Franz Boas and from a didactic analysis with Freud himself. In the late 1930s, Kardiner began what would prove to be an extremely fruitful collaboration with anthropologists Cora Du Bois and Ralph Linton. Their psychocultural seminars, sponsored initially by the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and later by the Department of Anthropology of Columbia University, gave rise to the personality-mediation model of culture and personality relations, with its key features of basic personality structure, ' and projective systems, ' and primary and secondary institutions.' Participants and guest lecturers in the seminar over the decade of its existence included Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, RUth Bunzel, and Carl Withers, as well as John Gillin, Victor Barnouw, David Aberle, Francis Hsu, and Alexander and Dorothea Leighton. The post-war period witnessed a drastic deterioration in Kardiner's ties with psychologically oriented anthropologists. Ultimately, a disenchanted and even embittered Kardiner abandoned hope of a genuine and enduring raprochement between psychoanalysis and the social sciences. Manson's study, a substantial expansion of an earlier published essay, is devoted to retrieving Kardiner from the limbo into which he lapsed some 30 years ago. The author offers a historical reconstruction of the classic psychocultural seminars and reassesses the theoretical and methodological innovations that emerged from them. As a historian Mansondisplays an impressive command of his materials. He does an admirable job of summarizing the ethnographic data on which Kardiner based his psychodynamic formulations and interpretations. He even manages to evoke something of the emotional flavor of the seminar sessions and the very different personalities involved. This is a consequence of his judicious use of rich primary sources: the exhaustive unpublished reminiscences of Kardiner himself, the private papers of Margaret Mead, and the recollections and/or seminar notes of Aberle, Barnouw, Du Bois and others. . . . a most worthwhile volume, one that should be read by specialists in culture and personality and by anyone interested in what took place in American anthropology between the wars.?-American Anthropologist
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Manson's study . . . is devoted to retrieving Kardiner from the limbo into which he lapsed some 30 years ago. The author offers a historical reconstruction of the classic psychocultural seminars and reassesses the theoretical and methodological innovations that emerged from them. As a historian Manson displays an impressive command of his materials. He does an admirable job of summarizing the ethnographic data on which Kardiner based his psychodynamic formulations and interpretations. He even manages to evoke something of the emotional flavor of the seminar sessions and the very different personalities involved. This is a consequence of his judicious use of rich primary sources: the exhaustive unpublished reminiscences of Kardiner himself, the private papers of Margaret Mead, and the recollections and/or seminar notes of Aberle, Barnouw, Du Bois and others. . . . a most worthwhile volume, one that should be read by specialists in culture and personality. "American Anthropologist"
While a number of anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s incorporated isolated elements of Freudian theory into their studies of the interplay of culture and personality, the psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner transcended disciplinary boundaries to forge a genuine psychocultural synthesis. Although the importance of Kardiner's pathbreaking The Individual and His Society is sometimes acknowledged, William Manson argues that Kardiner's work has often been overlooked or misinterpreted by social scientists and psychiatrists. In this first comprehensive study of Kardiner's theoretical contributions, Manson traces the development of Kardiners's psychodynamic formulations and evaluates the impact of his model on neo-Freudian culture-and-personality research and psychological anthropology in general.
The author discusses Kardiner's extended collaboration with leading anthropologists, which resulted in the creation of a psychocultural model for personality formation in different societies. He examines Kardiner's theory of culturally conditioned basic personality and the psychocultural technique for studying the interrelationships of specific cultural practices, personality adaptation, and supernatural belief systems. Manson's analysis places Kardiner's theories in the wider context of concurrent neo-Freudian approaches in anthropology and parallel developments in culturalist psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary social science. A balanced and lucid assessment of a major figure in psychological anthropology, this work will be of interest for psychoanalytic studies, cultural and psychological anthropology, psychodynamics, cross-cultural psychology, and the history of the social/behavioral sciences.
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