Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud - Dover Thrift Editions

Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud brings together a landmark set of essays first published in 1918. This Dover Thrift Editions paperback presents the work in a concise 160-page format.

Key details

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 160
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 28 December 2018

Synopsis

In this influential collection, Freud examines the tension between primitive feelings and the expectations of civilisation, focusing on the challenge of aligning unconscious desires with socially acceptable behaviour. The essays consider childhood development in relation to totemism, alongside the incest taboo as it appears in primitive societies around the world.

Further discussion addresses taboo and the ambivalence of emotions, as well as the infantile recurrence of totemism. Suitable for readers interested in psychoanalysis and early twentieth-century cultural theory.

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