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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, or Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics ( German: Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker ), is a 1913 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in ...
- Sigmund Freud
- 1913
Totem and Taboo ‘Freud has told us that for him all natural science, medi-cine, and psychotherapy were a lifelong journey round and back to the early passion of his youth for the history of mankind, for the origins of religion and moral-ity – an interest which at the height of his career broke
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The oldest and most important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: namely not to kill the totem animal, and to avoid sexual intercourse with totem companions of the other sex. It would therefore seem that these must have been the oldest and strongest desires of mankind.
Totem and Taboo is a formal intellectual essay which elaborates on ideas fundamental to Sigmund Freud’s theories of the developmental structure of the personality and its relation to the...
Dec 30, 2020 · In this book the attempt is ventured to find the original meaning of totemism through its infantile traces, that is, through the indications in which it reappears in the development of our own children. The close connection between totem and taboo indicates the further paths to the hypothesis maintained here.
Jan 14, 2023 · totem and taboo. by. sigmund freud. Publication date. 1950. Publisher. W. W. Norton & Company Inc. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
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