Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics - Freud, Sigmund

Translation by A.A. Brill; Clean, tight, unmarked; lightly age tanned; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; "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 later 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. ... 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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Toronto. ON