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Totem und Tabu

some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics

Also known as Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

by Sigmund Freud

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  • 20th century
  • Languages: German, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish
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"Totem und Tabu" by Sigmund Freud is a work published in 1913. Through four essays, Freud applies psychoanalytic methods to questions of anthropology, examining primitive societies through the lens of individual psychological development. He explores why certain cultures have intense incest taboos, what underlies the concept of taboo itself, how magical thinking emerges, and what connects totemism to social structures. Freud draws controversial parallels between "primitive" peoples and neurotics, proposing a provocative theory about the violent origins of human civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1918

1918———Source listed online copy

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1919

1919———Source listed online copy

Totem and taboo

1950Routledge & PaulEnglish, German—Public

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  • Editors: Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)
  • Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 51 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF733 .F713 1918
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF733 .F713 1919
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1919
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1918
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