Totem and taboo : Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and…
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"Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and..." by Sigmund Freud is a collection of four essays published in 1913. Freud applies psychoanalytic concepts to anthropology, archaeology, and religion, drawing controversial parallels between primitive societies and neurotic patients. Through examining incest taboos, totemism, animism, and the origins of social organization, he explores ambivalence, projection, and the "omnipotence of thoughts." The work proposes a provocative theory about the primal origins
of human society and religious guilt, though its conclusions remain hotly debated among anthropologists. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden), 1874-1948 |
| LoC No. | 20012143 |
| Uniform Title | Totem und tabu. English |
| Title | Totem and taboo : Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_and_Taboo |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 53.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis |
| LoC Class | RC: Medicine: Internal medicine |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Taboo |
| Subject | Neuroses |
| Subject | Ethnopsychology |
| Subject | Totemism |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 41214 |
| Release Date | Oct 28, 2012 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2338 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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