Totem and Taboo

Sigmund Freud; James Strachey; Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393001433
0-393-00143-1

Adducing evidence from "primitive" tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the oedipal phase, and speculations by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts to.

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trap the moment that civilized life began. It stands as his most imaginative venture into the psychoanalysis of culture.