biography
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Rivers, W(illiam) H(alse) R(ivers)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1922)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist and medical psychologist, born near Chatham, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied medicine, but lectured at Cambridge in neurophysiology and psychology. He took part in the Cambridge University expedition to the Torres Straits (1898–9), and subsequently worked among the Todas of India and in Melanesia, publishing the well-known The Todas (1906). His Instinct and the Unconscious (1920) sought to construct a theory of the unconscious based on the conflict of instinct, censorship, and reason. |
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