Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
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- Synopsis
- Reprints a translation by A. A. Brill, which was originally published in 1918 (Dodd, Mead & Company). Freud's classic work applies psychoanalysis to aboriginals, paralleling aboriginal practice and neurotic patterns of behavior. For example, Freud compares aboriginal incest taboos with scrupulous rituals of compulsion neurotics who, Freud finds, also wrestle with incest taboos. Culture is itself theorized as a reaction-formation to taboos prohibiting potentially destructive social behavior. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 1946
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 286 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307813480
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780394701240
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Dr. A. A. Brill
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.