Totem and Taboo
Subtitle: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (Great Minds Series)
Contributors: A. A. Brill (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781573927895
Subjects: Abnormal psychology; Psychoanalysis; Freud, Sigmund; Psychology; Totemism; Neuropsychology; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Ethnopsychology; Neuroses; Taboo
First sentence: PRIMITIVE man is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that is, through the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind for us, through our knowledge of his art, his religion and his attitude towards life, which we have received either directly or through the medium of legends, myths and fairy tales; and through the remnants of his ways of thinking that survive in our own manners and customs.