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Title
Totem and Taboo
Description
Totem and Taboo explores the origins of human civilization by connecting psychoanalysis with anthropology. Freud examines primitive societies, religious rituals, taboos, totemic beliefs, and the development of social rules, arguing that early human psychology mirrors the unconscious conflicts found in modern individuals. The book blends cultural analysis with Freud’s theories about guilt, repression, and the Oedipus complex.
Published by sigmund.freud
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