Totem and Taboo; Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics. (Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
Contributors: Peter Gay (Introduction); James Strachey (Translator)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1962
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780393001433
First sentence: Prehistoric man, in the various stages of his development, is known to us through the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind, through the information about his art, his religion and his attitude towards life which has come to us either directly or by way of tradition handed down in legends, myths and fairy tales, and through the relics of his mode of thought which survive in our own manners and customs.