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Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo

by Sigmund Freud

About this book

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. 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. 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.

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  1. 1Author's Preface and Translator's Introduction9:55 · read by Mary Schneider
  2. 2Chapter 1 The Savage's Dread of Incest40:48 · read by Mary Schneider
  3. 3Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 143:59 · read by Mary Schneider
  4. 4Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 239:26 · read by Mary Schneider
  5. 5Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 351:53 · read by Mary Schneider
  6. 6Chapter 3 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought56:52 · read by Mary Schneider
  7. 7Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 145:08 · read by Mary Schneider
  8. 8Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 248:10 · read by Mary Schneider
  9. 9Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 347:59 · read by Mary Schneider

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