Malinowski (1927) in his Sex and Repression in Savage Society argued that the Oedipus complex is absent in the Trobriand archipelago, where he found the "nuclear" or "matrilineal complex" to consist of a psychological constellation in which the boy loves his sister and hates his mother's brother. The evidence of that book is the cornerstone for the claim of relativists of all persuasions that the existence of the Oedipus complex is a product exclusively of the Western patriarchal