Totem and Taboo
Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
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Publisher Description
This book is a collection of four essays (The Horror of Incest, Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence, Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts and The Return of Totemism in Childhood) employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. In this controversial study Freud applies the theories and evidence of his psychoanalytic investigations to the study of aboriginal peoples and, by extension, to the earliest cultural stages of the human race before the rise of large-scale civilizations.
Customer Reviews
Totem Symbolism Non Aligning Taboo
Very interesting to see early cognitive development being attempted to be explained and linked in an almost comorbid sense to modern psychology. It makes sense to think of the modern mind and psychology being based on a template that determines modern individual and social psychological interactions.