Totem and taboo
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About This Book
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud's theories have influenced every facet of modern life, from film and literature to medicine and art. If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Tote...
Chapters (33)
- TOTEM AND TABOO BY DR. S. FREUD
- TOTEM AND TABOO
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
- TOTEM AND TABOO
- CHAPTER I THE SAVAGE’S DREAD OF INCEST
- CHAPTER II TABOO AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF EMOTIONS
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- (B) THE TABOO OF RULERS
- (C) THE TABOO OF THE DEAD
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- CHAPTER III ANIMISM, MAGIC AND THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THOUGHT
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- CHAPTER IV THE INFANTILE RECURRENCE OF TOTEMISM
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- (a) The Origin of Totemism
- (α) The Nominalistic Theories
- (β) The Sociological Theories
- (γ) The Psychological Theories
- (b) and (c) The Origin of Exogamy and Its Relation to Totemism
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- FOOTNOTES:
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