PEP | Article - An Anthropological Note on the Theory of Pre-Natal Instinctual Conflicts: Karl A. Menninger. Int. J. Psa., XX, 1939, pp. 439–442.

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Abstract

Menninger tries to apply the thesis of eros and death instinct speculatively to the development of the foetus in utero. He does so to show how similar the result of such a speculation is to certain beliefs of the Mohave Indians of Arizona concerning birth and shamanism.

PEP | Article - An Anthropological Note on the Theory of Pre-Natal Instinctual Conflicts: Karl A. Menninger. Int. J. Psa., XX, 1939, pp. 439–442. - Fenichel, Otto