Editing Psychosexual development (section)

===Anthropologic===
[[File:Wmalinowski trobriand isles 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bronisław Malinowski and natives, [[Trobriand Islands]] (1918)]]
Contemporary cultural considerations have questioned the normative presumptions of the Freudian psychodynamic perspective that posits the son–father conflict of the [[Oedipal complex]] as universal and essential to human psychologic development.

The anthropologist [[Bronisław Malinowski]]'s studies of the [[Trobriand Islands|Trobriand islanders]] challenged the Freudian proposal that psychosexual development (e.g. the Oedipus complex) was universal. He reported that in the insular matriarchal society of the Trobriand, boys are disciplined by their maternal uncles, not their fathers (impartial, avuncular discipline). In ''[[Sex and Repression in Savage Society]]'' (1927), Malinowski reported that boys dreamed of feared uncles, not of beloved fathers, thus, [[Power (philosophy)|power]] – not sexual jealousy – is the source of Oedipal conflict in such non–Western societies. Furthermore, contemporary research confirms that although personality traits corresponding to the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latent stage, and the genital stage are observable, they remain undetermined as fixed stages of childhood, and as adult personality traits derived from childhood.<ref name="FisherGreenberg">{{cite book|last1=Fisher|first1=Seymour|last2=Greenberg|first2=Roger P.|title=The scientific credibility of Freud's theories and therapy|journal=Medical History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFwQAQAAIAAJ|year=1977|volume=22|issue=3|page=346|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-07385-6|pmc=1082294}}</ref>

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