Malinowski Argued That the Oedipal Complex Was Absent in the Matrilineal

question 9

True/False

Malinowski argued that the Oedipal complex was absent in the matrilineal Trobriand Islands, where a young man has an ambivalent relationship with his mother's brother, not his father.

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Non-associative Model

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