![]() ![]() Drawing on Sir James Frazer ’s explorations of Australian Aboriginal peoples, he interpreted the mixture of fear and reverence for the totemic animal in terms of the child’s attitude. The book itself is one of the most fascinating and characteristic, and also of the most speculative, in the whole Freudian canon. Freud extended the scope of his theories to include anthropological and social psychological speculation as well in Totem und Tabu (1913 Totem and Taboo). Nearly all his work was well translated into English, with one glaring exception: - Totem and Taboo. 'Freud had a strong element of the artist in his composition. It is very useful, then, to have this new translation of the pioneer work.' - Nature But in any resolution of them the work of psychoanalysts must be taken very seriously into account. 'Relations between social anthropology and psychology are still ill-defined and unstable. 'Freud has told us that for him all natural science, medicine, and psychotherapy were a lifelong journey round and back to the early passion of his youth for the history of mankind, for the origins of religion and morality - an interest which at the height of his career broke out to such magnificent effect in - Totem and Taboo.' - Thomas Mann 'With - Totem and Tabo Freud invented evolutionary psychology.' ![]()
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