Violence and the Sacred

Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Sacrifice; 2 The Sacrificial Crisis; 3 Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim; 4 The Origins of Myth and Ritual; 5 Dionysus; 6 From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double; 7 Freud and the Oedipus Complex; 8 Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition; 9 Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage Laws; 10 The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial Substitution; 11 The Unity of All Rites; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index