{"product_id":"totem-and-taboo-dover-thrift-editions","title":"Totem and Taboo (Dover Thrift Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark collection of essays  published as Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics in 1918  the father of psychoanalysis explores the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization  i.e.  the struggle to reconcile unconscious desires with socially acceptable behavior. Totemism  a concept found in societies around the world  involves the belief in a sacred relationship between an object (totem) and a human kinship group. Men and women bearing the same totem are prohibited from marrying each other  this being a form of incest taboo. Freud identifies a strong unconscious inclination as the basis of taboo  and he attempts to define its source by tracing the earliest appearance in childhood development of totemism. After an examination of the incest taboo in primitive societies around the world  Freud discusses taboo and the ambivalence of emotions; animism  magic  and the omnipotence of thought; and the infantile recurrence of totemism. An important work by one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers  Totem and Taboo is essential reading for teachers and students of psychology as well as those with an interest in ethnology and folklore. This inexpensive edition offers all readers access to one of Freuds most penetrating attempts to decipher the mysteries of human behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948665139253,"sku":"ByrdShop_048640434X","price":59.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780486404349_60123abd-e790-4019-812b-b39631aa7d4a.jpg?v=1770582037","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/totem-and-taboo-dover-thrift-editions","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}