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Freud: savages and neurotics share a primal guilt.

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

Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

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    224 pages

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    12 April 1960

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Summary

In this brilliant exploratory attempt (written in 1912-1913) to extend the analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture, Freud laid the lines for much of his later thought, and made a major contribution to the psychology of religion.

Primitive societies and the individual, he found, mutually illuminate each other, and the psychology of primitive races bears marked resemblances to the psychology of neurotics. Basing his investigations on the findings of the anthropologists,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780394701240
ISBN-10:0394701240
Author:Sigmund Freud
Publisher:Vintage
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Edition:1st
Release Date:12 April 1960
Weight:177g
Dimensions:17mm x 110mm x 185mm
Series:Vintage
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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud - ISBN: 9780394701240
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About The Author

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Sigmund Freud is considered one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers and is recognized as the founder of psychoanalysis, a school of psychology that revolutionized the understanding of the human mind. His extensive body of work includes seminal texts such as:

  • The Ego and the Id
  • An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
  • Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety
  • New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
  • Civilization and Its Discontent

and many other significant contributions to the fields of psychology, philosophy, and cultural theory.

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