Totem Y Tabu / Totem And Taboo by Sigmund Freud
Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics
A psychoanalytic investigation of primitive myth, ritual and social rules that argues many cultural institutions—totems, taboos (especially the incest taboo), and religious rites—arose from unconscious memories of a primal patricidal event: the sons’ murder of a dominant father and the guilt that followed. These collective emotions were transformed into totemic reverence and prohibitions that shaped morality and law, and the same dynamics persist in individual neuroses and the formation of conscience. The work links ethnographic evidence with psychoanalytic theory to suggest that the roots of religion and social order are psychological as well as historical.
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- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- Austrian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-250 pages
- Original Language
- German
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- Tótem y tabú
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