Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and NeuroticsTotem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts. Adducing evidence from 'primitive' tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the Oedipal phase, and speculations by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts to trap the moment that civilized life began. It stands as his most imaginative venture into the psychoanalysis of culture. |
Contents
Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence | 24 |
Animism Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts | 94 |
The Return of Totemism in Childhood | 125 |
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Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of ... Sigmund Freud Limited preview - 1999 |
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