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.
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