Title: Totem and taboo : some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics /
Authors: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Strachey, James
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 1950
Subjects: Neuroses; Ethnophilosophy; Psychoanalysis; Taboo; Totemism; Psychoanalysis; Taboo
Abstract: A collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-1913), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.
Contents: The horror of incest -- Taboo and emotional ambivalence -- Animism, magic and the omnipotence of thoughts -- The return of totemism in childhood.