num_pages: 224
description: 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 Totem and Taboo is the book to read.
language: English
title: Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
titlecomplete: Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
characters: William Robertson Smith, James Frazer, Andrew Lang
genres: Anthropology, Theory, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Classics, Sociology, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 9979
publisher: Vintage Books (NY)