Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts. Adducing evidence from "primitive" tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the oedipal phase, and speculatinos by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts to trap the moment that civilized life began. It stands as his most imaginative venture into the psychoanalysis of culture.
Totem and Taboo book jacket


Paperback / ISBN 0-393-00143-1 / 5-1/4" x 7-3/4" / 224 pages / Psychology
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