false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172011386m/132464.jpg 132464 28 In this controversial study Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) applies the theories and evidence of his psychoanalytic investigations to the study of aboriginal peoples and, by extension, to the earliest cultural stages of the human species before the rise of large-scale civilizations. Freud points out the striking parallels between the cultural practices of native tribal groups and the behavior patterns of neurotics. Beginning with a discussion of the incest taboo, he compares some of the elaborate taboo restrictions seen in these cultures to the scrupulous rituals of compulsion neurotics, who in a similar fashion are wrestling with the ambivalent emotions aroused by the incest taboo. He suggests that many of the rituals of culture are developed as psychological reactions to taboos, which prohibit the acting out of an infantile impulse that would be socially destructive. <P>Freud concludes by invoking his famous Oedipal complex as the key to the development of culture. The repressed psychological urge to kill the father as a rival for the mother's affections is the underlying motive for the symbols and ceremonies of religion with its rituals of atonement and its notions of angry gods, original sin, and human guilt. <P>Although Freud's theories are controversial today, this masterful synthesis and its undeniable influence on later scholars of religion, anthropology, and psychology make it a seminal work. 978281 1913 Totem and Taboo total:483|5:103|4:163|3:159|2:43|1:15| 483 1745 724 20 4 0 false false Mon Mar 10 07:11:32 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 22 11:55:19 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 07:11:22 -0700 2008 admittedly, there could be no jung without freud...he d...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 23:43:09 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 23:53:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 16 13:28:34 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 13:30:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 22:21:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 20:00:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1973 Sun Feb 01 11:07:54 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:18:44 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Jul 24 12:35:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 12:42:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Dec 07 22:09:46 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 22:10:38 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Jul 14 04:34:53 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 04:36:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 28 01:49:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 01:50:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:46:45 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:46:45 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat May 31 21:24:22 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 17:35:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 04 19:43:19 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 20:03:25 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 23 19:21:29 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 22:13:52 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jun 03 13:06:57 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 11:22:28 -0700 2007
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