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Totem and Taboo - Resemblances Betwen the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (Paperback)
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Totem and Taboo - Resemblances Betwen the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (Paperback)
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In this brilliant exploratory attempt to extend the analysis of the
individual psyche to society and culture, Freud laid the lines for
much of his late thought, and made a major contribution to the
psychology of religion. Primitive societies and the individual, he
found, mutually illuminate each other, and the psychology of
primitive races bears marked resemblances to the psychology of
neurotics. Basing his investigations on the finding of
anthropologists, Freud came to the conclusion that totemism and its
accompanying restriction of exogamy derive form the savage's dread
of incest, and that taboo customs parallel closely the symptoms of
compulsion neurosis. The killing of the 'primal father' and the
consequent sense of guilt are seen as determining events both in
the misty tribal pre-history of mankind, and in the suppressed
wishes of individual men. Both totemism and taboo are thus held to
have their roots in the Oedipus complex, which lies at the basis of
all neurosis, and, as Freud argues, is also the origin of religion,
ethics, society, and art.
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