Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics Paperback - 1960 - 1st Edition
by Sigmund Freud
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Primitive man is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that is, through the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind for us, through our knowledge of his art, his religion and his attitude towards life, which we have received either directly or through the medium of legends, myths and fairy tales; and through the remnants of his ways of thinking that survive in our own manners and customs.
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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.
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- Title Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
- Author Sigmund Freud
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 12, 1960
- ISBN 9780394701240 / 0394701240
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.27 x 4.35 x 0.65 in (18.47 x 11.05 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 150.195
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