Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

“Totem and Taboo”: is a 1913 book by the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, in which he applies his theory to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. It consists of four essays inspired by the work of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung: “The Horror of Incest,” “Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence,” “Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts,” and “The Return of Totemism in Childhood.”
227 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
Publisher
Good Press
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  • Ольга Дмитриеваhas quoted2 years ago
    them. Most of the exceptional positions and conditions have this character and possess this dangerous power. The king or chieftain rouses envy of his prerogatives; everybody would perhaps like to be king. The dead, the newly born, and women when they are incapacitated all act as incitements on account of their peculiar helplessness, while the individual who has just reached sexual maturity tempts through the promise of a new pleasure. Therefore all these persons and all these conditions are taboo, for one must not yield to the temptations which they offer.
  • Ольга Дмитриеваhas quoted2 years ago
    ut a person may become permanently or temporarily taboo without having violated any taboos, for the simple reason that he is in a condition which has the property of inciting the forbidden desires of others and of awakening the ambivalent conflict in
  • Ольга Дмитриеваhas quoted2 years ago
    The basis of taboo is a forbidden action for which there exists a strong inclination in the unconscious.

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