The problem of taboo is presented more exhaustively, and the effort to solve it is approached with perfect confidence. The two principle themes, totem and taboo, which gave the name to this small book are not treated alike here. Both groups will have to content themselves with whatever attention they can stimulate here and there and with the hope that frequent meetings between them will not remain unproductive for science. They will not furnish the former with sufficient insight into the new psychological technique, nor will the psychoanalysts acquire through them an adequate command over the material to be elaborated. It is hoped that they may serve as a bond between students of ethnology, philology, folklore and of the allied sciences, and psychoanalysts they cannot, however, supply both groups the entire requisites for such coöperation. The four essays which are here collected will be of interest to a wide circle of educated people, but they can only be thoroughly understood and judged by those who are really acquainted with psychoanalysis as such. The others, however, demand a word of explanation. I shall not touch upon those which are characteristic of first efforts at investigation. I am fully aware of the shortcomings in these essays. I am pleased to say that the first stimulus for my own works came from these two sources. The former tries to accomplish the same object through assumptions and procedures from non-analytic psychology, while the latter follow the opposite course and strive to settle problems of individual psychology by referring to material of racial psychology. Wundt and the works of the Zurich Psychoanalytic School. In method this book contrasts with that of W. They represent my first efforts to apply view-points and results of psychoanalysis to unexplained problems of racial psychology. 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.The essays treated here appeared under the subtitle of this book in the first numbers of the periodical “Imago” edited by me. 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.

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.

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Totem and taboo by sigmund freud