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In this controversial study, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) applies the
theories and evidence of his psychoanalytic investigations to the
study of aboriginal peoples and, by extension, to the earliest
cultural stages of the human race before the rise of large-scale
civilisations. Freud points out the striking parallels between the
cultural practices of native tribal groups and the behaviour
patterns of neurotics. Beginning with a discussion of the incest
taboo, he compares some of the elaborate taboo restrictions seen in
these cultures to the scrupulous rituals of compulsion neurotics,
who in a similar fashion are wrestling with the ambivalent emotions
aroused by the incest taboo. He suggests that many of the rituals
of culture are developed as psychological reactions to taboos,
which prohibit the acting out of an infantile impulse that would be
socially destructive. Freud concludes by invoking his famous
Oedipal complex as the key to the development of culture.;The
repressed psychological urge to kill the father as a rival for the
mother's affections is the underlying motive for the symbols and
ceremonies of religion with its rituals of atonement and its
notions of angry gods, original sin, and human guilt. Although
Freud's theories are controversial today, this masterful synthesis
and its undeniable influence on later scholars of religion,
anthropology, and psychology make it a seminal work.
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Totem and Taboo (Hardcover)
Sigmund Freud; Translated by A.A. Brill; Edited by John K. Smith
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R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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Totem and Taboo is work employing the application of psychoanalysis
to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of
religion. The four chapters are entitled: The Horror of Incest;
Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence
of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood.
This book marked a notable advance in psychiatry in that it
emphasizes sharply the contrast between the older descriptive
psychiatry of Kraeplin and the newer interpretative psychiatry of
the present time which utilizes the psychoanalytical principles and
general biological viewpoints developed by Freud and his pupils in
Europe and by Meyer, Hoch, White and others. As an introduction to
the study of clinical psychiatry the physician and the student will
find the chapters dealing with the principles of psychology and
psychopathalogy particularly helpful and stimulating.
This book marked a notable advance in psychiatry in that it
emphasizes sharply the contrast between the older descriptive
psychiatry of Kraeplin and the newer interpretative psychiatry of
the present time which utilizes the psychoanalytical principles and
general biological viewpoints developed by Freud and his pupils in
Europe and by Meyer, Hoch, White and others. As an introduction to
the study of clinical psychiatry the physician and the student will
find the chapters dealing with the principles of psychology and
psychopathalogy particularly helpful and stimulating.
2011 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
Psychopathology of Everyday Life is one of the key texts of Sigmund
Freud, who provided the foundation for the theory and practice of
psychoanalysis. Along with the with The Interpretation of Dreams,
Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Ego and the Id, the
Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a classic in the literature of
psychoanalysis. The book also became one of the scientific classics
of the 20th century. It is also very important not only for
psychopathology, but for modern linguistics, semantics and
philosophy. Studying the various deviations from everyday behavior,
as well as seemingly random errors, Freud concludes that these
abnormalities suggest an underlying pathology of the psyche and
constitute symptoms of psychoneurosis.
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Totem and Taboo
Sigmund Freud; Translated by A.A. Brill
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R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
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Out of stock
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Presents a selection of the important writings of the
nineteenth-century psychiatrist, including Psychopathology of
Everyday Life, The Interpretation of Dreams, and Totem and Taboo..
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