Bachofen, Johann, 43, 148 
Baliteau , Catherine, 95 
Bateson, Gregory, 110, 112-19, 130, 134 
Beauvoir, Simone de, 203 
behaviorism, 118, 119 
Berkner, Lutz, x 
Bion, W. R., 32, 110 
Bleuler, Eugene, 112 
Bolshevism, 47 
bourgeois family, xiv, xv, 3, 8, 12, 16, 22-24, 36, 37, 42, 55-57, 166-68, 170, 173-76, 178, 196, 200, 202 
Burgundy, 157 

capitalism, xiii, xvi, xvii, 2, 19, 22, 29, 36, 40, 45, 47-50, 57, 60, 62, 64, 65, 74, 79, 81, 82, 105-107, 113, 121,127,137,141, 161, 170, 179, 193, 198, 199, 203 
castration threat, 5-7, 18, 19, 21, 22, 91, 92, 99, 100, 182 
Christ, 186 
communication theory, 111, 123 
communism, 28, 42, 48, 52 
condensation, 88 
conjugal family, x, 101, 185, 187 
Cooper, David, 137, 138 
counter-transference, 86 
critical theory, xix, 40, 41, 46, 62, 63, 70, 85, 139, 140, 146, 163-67, 197, 205 
cybernetics, iii 

Deleuze, Gilles, 1, 105-109, 138 
demography, 144 
developmental psychology, 145 
displacement, 88 
Dolto, Françoise, 92-95 
double bind, 113-15, 118 
double standard, 44, 45, 169 
Durkheim, Emile, 144 
 

ego psychology, 58, 64, 6S, 76, 86, 89, 123 
England, 125, 161, 168, 174, 190, 191, 194,195, 197 
Enlightenment, 30, 31, 38 
Engels, Friedrich, xviii, 42-46, 48, 49 
Erikson, Erik, xviii, 3, 58, 65-79, 81, 82, 112, 148, 181 
ethno-methodology, 135 
Etzioni, Amitai, 139 
Europe, xvi, 12, 141, 152, 184, 187, 190,194, 197 
existential Marxism, xix 
existentialism, 126, 127, 130 
extended family, x, 36, 184 

Family Association of America, 121 
family therapy, xviii, 110, 118-21, 123, 124, 138 
fascism, 48, 50, 51, 53, 57 
feminism, 95, 186, 199 
feudalism, 161, 179 
Feuer, Lewis, 33 
Firth, Raymond, 146 
Flandrin, Jean-Louis, xi 
Fliess, Wilhelm, 10, 17 
Foucault, Michel, 126 
Fourier, Charles, 42 
France, 85, 117, 154, 161, 168, 174, 179, 191, 197 
Frankfurt School, xviii, xix, 48, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58 
Freud, Sigmund, xviii, xix, 1-41, 46-48, 52, 53, 55, 57-61, 63-70, 72-74, 76, 78, 81, 82, 85-88, 91, 92, 95,100,102, 104-106, 109-12, 115,117, 120, 126, 128-30, 133,144-47,150-52,154, 161, 163, 167, 168, 171, 173-77, 183, 188 
Freudo-Marxism, 47-49, 86 
Fromm, Erich, 53, 58, 59, 102 

Gandhi, Mahatma, 77 
Germany, 51, 64, 77, 78, 174, 191 
gestalt psychology, 119 
Gladstone, William, 194 
Goffman, Erving, 135 
Goode, William, 202, 203 
Greece, 22, 29 
Groethuysen, Bernard, 186 
group psychology, 30, 31, 34, 36 
Guattari, Félix, 1, 105-109, 138 

Haley, Jay, iii 
Hartman, Heinz, 64, 65, 73 
Hegel, Georg, 90 
Henry, Louis, xi 
historical materialism, 43, 85 
Hitler, Adolph, 33, 50, 51 
Horkeimer, Max, 53-58, 61, 62 
Horney, Karen, 64 
Hsu, Francis, 146 
Hunt, David, 69, 181 
humanistic psychology, 139 
hysteria, 112 

incest, 10, 98 
incest taboo, 25, 35, 81, 96, 98-104 
India, 77 
individualism, 2, 68, 71-75, 78, 109, 119, 135, 140, 177 
industrialization, xvii, 45, 75, 83, 190,197 
infanticide, 153 
Irigaray, Luce, 94, 95 
Italy, 9 

Jackson, Don, iii,115 
Jakobson, Roman, 86 
James I, 179 
Jones, Ernest, 102 
Judaea, 29 
Jung, Carl, 95 
kibbutz, 152, 204 
Kingsley Hall, 136, 137 
kinship, 25, 26, 36, 81, 82, 97, 101, 124, 141, 156, 186, 195 
Klein, Melanie, 67, 86 
Kraepelin, Emil, 112, 128, 129 
Kris, Ernst, 64 

Lacan, Jacques, xviii, 85-92, 94-100, 102,105, 106, 109, iii, 118 Laing, R. D., 113,117,125-38 
LaMaze method, 201 
Laplance, J., 8 
Laslett, Peter, x-xii, 197 
Leach, Edmund, 146 
LeBon, Gustave, 30, 31 
Leboyer method, 201 
Le Play, Frédéric, x, xviii 
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 25, 96-102, 146 
liberalism, 1, 29, 30, 32, 38, 50, 78 
Lidz, Theodore, 123-25, 157 
life cycle, 69, 70, 71, 78 
Little Hans, 7, 8, 182, 189 
Liverpool, 191 
Locke, John, 29, 31 
Loewenstein, Rudolf, 64 
London, 195 
Los Angeles, 157 
Louis XIII, 182, 189 
Luther, Martin, 77 
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 48, 97, 102, 103, 146 
Manchester, ixi 
Mannoni, Maud, 92-94 
Marcuse, Herbert, 58-62 
Marx, Karl, xviii, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50-53, 63, 79, 105, 140, 142, 144 
Marxism, xviii, xix, 42, 46-48 
masturbation, 5, 9, 18-20, 174, 191 
matriarchy, 43, 44, 48, 49 
Mause, Lloyd de, 153, 154, 173, 197 
Mead, Margaret, 80 
medical model, 10, 128 
melancholia, 104 
metaphor, 88 
metapsychology, 1 
metonymy, 88 
Middle Ages, x, 168 
Mill, John Stuart, 144 
mirror stage, 89, 90 
Mitchell, Juliet, xvii, 132 
mode of production, 43-45, 53, 63, 140 
modernization, xvi, xvii, 79, 80, 144,160,197 
monogamy, 48, 49 
Montaigne, Michel de, 180 
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 43, 48 
Mousnier, Roland, xi, 155 
Mussolini, Benito, 50 

narcissism, 8, 9, 26, 6o 
National Institute of Mental Health, 120 
neotony, 15 
nuclear family, x, xi, xiii-xv, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 3437, 45, 47, 75, 79, 82-84, 100, 106, 117,123,124,135, 137,138, 167 

Oedipus complex, i, 6, ii, 16-26, 28, 33, 35-37, 39, 40, 47, 62, 66, 67, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102-108, 176 
Old Regime, 184 
Ortigues, Edmond, 102-105 
Ortigues, Marie-Cecile, 102-1O5 
 

Palo Alto Mental Research Institute, iii, 116, 119 
Parent Gap, 198 
parish registers, x 
Parsons, Talcott, xii, xiiii xviiii, 54, 65, 78-83, 123, 142, 146, 157 
patriarchy, xvii, 43, 44, 48-509 56, 62, 76, 163, 199 
peasant family, 37, 71, 153, 166, 184, 185, 190, 196 
performance principle, 58, 62 
personality theory, 3 
phallocentrism, 7, 95 
Philadelphia Association, 136 
Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, 122 
phobia, 122 
Piaget, Jean, xviii, 145 
Platt, Gerald, xii 
pleasure principle, ii 
Pontalis, J.-B., 8 
primogeniture, 161 
private property, 28, 38, 43, 44 
prostitution, 191 
psychohistory, 40 
psychoanalysis, 1-4,8,11,14,17, 24, 27-30, 32, 349 38, 46, 479 53, 58, 64, 67, 85, 86, 88, 91, 96, 97,102, 106, 107, 119, 144, 145, 199 
Puritanism, 163 

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., 146 
radical therapy, 139 
Rainwater, Lee, 77, 78 
Rank, Otto, 34 
reality principle, ii, 60, 61, 68 
Reich, Wilhelm, xviii, 46-53, 55, 58-60, 69, 107, 138, 186 
Reichel Reimut, 63 
Reisman, David, 62 
Renaissance, 168 
representative democracy, 121 
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas, 189 
Ricardo, David, 1 
Roheim, Géza, 102 
romantic love, 36, 200 
Rome, 77 
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 33 
Rossi, Alice, 147, 148 
Rude, George, 31 

Sartre, Jean-Paul, xix, 126, 130-329, 135, 136 
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 86, 87, 111 
schizophrenia, 106, 111-17, 121, I33, 127-29, 132-133 
Schneider, Michael, 63 
Scholz, Friedrich, 172 
Senegal, 102-104 
Sexpol, 52 
sexual repression, 48-50, 52, 140 
sexual revolution, xiii, xiv, 26 
Shorter, Edward, xii-xvii, I91, 197 
Sioux, 148 
Slater, Philip, 163 
Smith, Adam, 24, 79 
Social Democrats, 52, 53 
socialism, 44, 45, 47, 49, 53 
socialization, 79-82, 142, 143 
Stoller, Robert, 76 
structuralism, 85 
Sullivan, Harry S., 64 
Szasz, Thomas, 127 

Tardé, Gabriel, 30, 31 
Thomas, Keith, 169 
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 144 
Total Woman movement, 200 
transactional analysis, 119 
Trobriand Islanders, 48, 49, 103 

United States, xvi,  64, 119 121, 174, 194, 199-201, 203 

Victorian, 6, 11-13, 26, 44, 169, 173 

Watzlawick, Paul, 118 
Weakland, John, 111 
Weber, Max, 78, 144 
Weinstein, Fred, xii 
Wilmott, Peter, 195 
working-class family, 22, 37, 52, 55, 56, 166, 190, 192, 196 
World War II, 64, 79, 11O, 112 
Wynne, Lyman, 120, 121 
Young, Michael, 195