The Vicissitudes of Totemism : One Hundred Years After Totem and Taboo

by Gerard Lucas

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0367329085

ISBN-13 9780367329082

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 27th, 2019

Print length 286 Pages

Weight 690 grams

Product Classification: Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

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Describing the direction adumbrated by Freud's enquiry as "highly pertinent". Totemism appears in Freud's work as a way of dealing with one of the canonical forms of human destructiveness, namely parricide.

After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud''s work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Levi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, althou

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