Totem and Taboo (eBook)

Sigmund Freud (Autor)

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2018
160 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-83569-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Landmark collection of essays, originally published in 1918, explores the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization, i.e., the struggle to reconcile unconscious desires with socially acceptable behavior.

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Originally published in 1918, this landmark collection of essays by the father of psychoanalysis represents one of Freud's most penetrating attempts to decipher the mysteries of human behavior. Its focus is the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization, i.e., the struggle to reconcile unconscious desires with socially acceptable behavior. Totemism involves the belief in a sacred relationship between an object (totem) and a human kinship group. Men and women bearing the same totem are prohibited from marrying each other, this being a form of incest taboo. Freud identifies a strong unconscious inclination as the basis of taboo, and he attempts to define its source by tracing the earliest appearance in childhood development of totemism. After an examination of the incest taboo in primitive societies around the world, Freud discusses taboo and the ambivalence of emotions; animism, magic, and the omnipotence of thought; and the infantile recurrence of totemism.

Autor

The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) ranks among the most important figures in Western psychology. Freud is responsible for the theories of parapraxis (Freudian slips), dreams as wish fulfillment, the Oedipus complex, repression, the unconscious mind, and other ground-breaking concepts.

Inhalt

Note Author's Preface Translator's Introduction I. The Savage's Dread of Incest II. Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions III. Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought IV. The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ambivalence • animal sacrifice • Animism • Australian Aborigines • blood relatives • books on ambivalences • books on animal sacrifices • books on animisms • books on australian aborigines • books on blood relatives • books on cannibalisms • books on eat meats • books on ethnologies • books on hordes • books on hypotheses • books on incests • books on jung • books on just-so stories • books on libidos • books on manifestations • books on mankind • books on monotheisms • books on neuroses • books on neurotics • books on oedipus complices • books on omnipotences • books on parricides • books on primitive peoples • books on primitives • books on renunciations • books on resemblances • books on savages • books on sins • books on social contracts • books on strongmen • books on taboos • books on totem animals • books on totems • books on worships • Cannibalism • eating meat • eat meat • Ethnology • Horde • hypotheses • Incest • incestuous • jung • just-so story • Libido • Manifestation • mankind • Monotheism • neurosis • neurotics • oedipal • Oedipus complex • Omnipotence • parricide • postulated • Primeval • primitive peoples • primitives • Primordial • Renunciation • resemblances • savages • Sin • Social Contract • Strongman • taboos • totem animal • totemic • Totems • Unconscious • urges • Worship
• ISBN-10: 0-486-83569-3 / 0486835693
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-83569-3 / 9780486835693