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9781568214566

Filicide The Murder, Humiliation, Mutilation, Denigration, and Abandonment of Children by Parents

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568214566

  • ISBN10:

    1568214561

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-09-01
  • Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $89.00

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
PART I The History of Filicide 1(156)
The Origins of Filicide
3(22)
Filicide in Basic Western Myths
25(20)
The Prohibition against Incest, Filicide, and the Sociocultural Process
45(14)
Filicide in the Origins of Monotheism
59(38)
Filicide in History and Anthropology
97(36)
Jesus and Filicide
133(24)
PART II Filicide in Literature 157(84)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
159(18)
Dostoyevsky and Filicide
177(38)
``The Monkey's Paw''
215(26)
W. W. Jacobs
PART III Thoughts on Filicide Today 241(24)
References 265(6)
Credits 271(2)
Index 273

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