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Totem and Taboo - Free Audiobook
Language: English
Author(s): Sigmund Freud,
Genre(s): Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology,
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[1/9] Author's Preface and Translator's Introduction
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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912–13) employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood.
(Introduction by Wikipedia)