Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male

by Bruno Bettelheim

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Signed

Hardcover. Signed. 4to. 286pp. Original brown half cloth over blue cloth boards with red lettering on the spine and gold lettering on the cover in original printed illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece illustrated plate depicting a cultic image from New Ireland with breasts and a phallus. Dr. Bruno Bettelheim was one of the main proponents of Freudian theory as applied to child development in the United States during the later part of the 20th century. This book is in fact dedicated to the

  • Binding: Hardcover

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