James Stachey (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud, Translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company — Fifth Printing Softcover / paperback. 95¢ cover price. Book: very good +; uncreased spine, some light-related toning on white covers with otherwise very light edge and handling wear, binding sound, light uniform toning (see photos) One of Freud's major speculative cultural works, Totem and Taboo applies psychoanalytic ideas to anthropology, religion, kinship, taboo, magic, and the origins of social order. This Norton paperback of the James Strachey translation is a useful vintage reading copy for students and collectors of psychoanalysis, anthropology, religion, and twentieth-century intellectual history.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. dj. First Edition. First English Edition. Octavo. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". 133pp. Incl. index. Blue cloth with gilt title in dust jacket. Blue cloth has a hint of edge stain, only noticeable if you look hard. Light foxing to a couple pages at end. Dust jacket is darkened on spine and has waterstaining to edges.…