Totem and Taboo - Softcover

Sigmund Freud

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0710046014 ISBN 13: 9780710046017

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950

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Totem and TabooAuthor: Sigmund FreudTitle: Totem and TabooPublication: W.W. Norton & CompanyEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, 5th Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1950. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with light toning to the page ends and light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller ID: 323334Subject: Philosophy & Psychology We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

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From the Back Cover

In this brilliant exploratory attempt to extend the analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture, Freud laid the lines for much of his late thought, and made a major contribution to the psychology of religion. Primitive societies and the individual, he found, mutually illuminate each other, and the psychology of primitive races bears marked resemblances to the psychology of neurotics. Basing his investigations on the finding of anthropologists, Freud came to the conclusion that totemism and its accompanying restriction of exogamy derive form the savage's dread of incest, and that taboo customs parallel closely the symptoms of compulsion neurosis. The killing of the 'primal father' and the consequent sense of guilt are seen as determining events both in the misty tribal pre-history of mankind, and in the suppressed wishes of individual men. Both totemism and taboo are thus held to have their roots in the Oedipus complex, which lies at the basis of all neurosis, and, as Freud argues, is also the origin of religion, ethics, society, and art.

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Publication date: 1950
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710046014
• ISBN 13: 9780710046017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256