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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War; CHAPTER TWO From the 1920s to the Second World War; CHAPTER THREE Returning to the circumstances ofthe publication and translation of Totem and Taboo; CHAPTER FOUR Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War; CHAPTER FIVE Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient; CHAPTER SIX The misfortunes of ambition; CHAPTER SEVEN The evolution of practices. |
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CHAPTER EIGHT Beyond nature and cultureCHAPTER NINE The new possibility of discussions on the principle axes of Freud's thought in Totem and Taboo; CHAPTER TEN Totem and Taboo, politics, and law; CHAPTER ELEVEN Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo; CHAPTER TWELVE The price of murderous consent?; APPENDIX Summary of the main lines of Freud's essay; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
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"After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud's work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Levi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, although a number of prominent members of the English school of Social Anthropology contested this view, describing the direction adumbrated by Freud's enquiry as "highly pertinent". Totemism appears in Freud's work as a way of dealing with one of the canonical forms of human destructiveness, namely parricide. Why did eminent men find it impossible to utilise Freud's book and those studies that followed it in the interwar period The mass murders in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, however different they may have been, both generated a profound sense of horror that made their consequences largely unrepresentable for Europeans for more than thirty years. Did this delay, and the attitudes of the following generations towards authority, result from an unconscious logic of "resistance" aimed at re-establishing refusals that did not take place at the time? The Western world seems to have forgotten the strength of the mixed family ties of tribes, casts, and religions that are in fact at work in the psychic life of a great number of men and women in the world."--Provided by publisher |
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| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Totem und Tabu.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Totem und Tabu
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Totem und Tabu (Freud, Sigmund) (OCoLC)fst01366788 |
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Neuroses.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Taboo.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Ethnology.
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Ethnopsychology
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Neurotic Disorders
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Ethnology
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Taboo
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Freudian Theory
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taboo. |
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ethnopsychology. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. |
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Diseases. |
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. |
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106 |
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Ethnopsychology. (OCoLC)fst00916198 |
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Neuroses. (OCoLC)fst01036527 |
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Psychoanalysis. (OCoLC)fst01081235 |
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Taboo. (OCoLC)fst01141792 |
| ISBN |
9781782414131 (electronic bk.) |
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1782414134 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781815458 (electronic bk.) |
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1781815453 (electronic bk.) |
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9781782202622 |
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1782202625 |
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