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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Silk, Jonathan A. Riven by lust. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2009 (OCoLC)609272275 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan A Silk |
| ISBN: | 9780824830908 0824830903 |
| OCLC Number: | 225532087 |
| Description: | xviii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Jonathan A. Silk. |
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Abstract:
"Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas. Simultaneously, he investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of contemporary psychological and anthropological understandings of incest, with special attention to the question of why we consider it among the worst of crimes." "Riven by Lust is a paradigmatic analysis of a major theme of world mythology and a signal contribution to the study of the history of incest and comparative sexualities. It will attract readers interested in Buddhism, Indian studies, Asian studies, comparative culture, mythology, psychology, and the history of sexuality."--Jacket.
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