Family emotional structure varies fundamentally between patriarchal and matriarchal societies.

Evidence

Anthropologists took an early interest in Freudian concepts (Devereux, 1980). Although most remained sceptical of Freud’s own anthropological speculations, especially his theory of the parricidal “primal horde,” many found his formulation of the Oedipus complex of great pertinence to their ethnographic work. Malinowski, in his field study of Trobriand Islanders, had argued the case for a matrilineal variant in which the maternal uncle rather than the father plays the key role in the Oedipal triangle. In this culture the young man must become a mother’s brother to his sister’s children when he grows up and hence must renounce identification with his father at an early stage of the game. In other words different patterns of authority, power, and kinship generate different structures of emotional attachment and conflict (Malinowski, 1954). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1361 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Different kinship and authority patterns generate different structures of emotional attachment — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1361

Broader Connections

• Different kinship and authority patterns generate different structures of emotional attachment #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1361