Totem and Taboo

By Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud
  • Release Date: 2014-03-03
  • Genre: Philosophy

Description

This landmark collection of essays by the father of psychoanalysis explores the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization. Freud identifies a strong unconscious inclination as the basis of taboo, a forbidden behavior, and traces its earliest appearance to the childhood development of totemism.