Totem and Taboo

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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912–13) employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

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Author's Preface and Translator's Introduction

Episode 0 · 9:55

Chapter 1 The Savage's Dread of Incest

Episode 1 · 40:48

Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 1

Episode 2 · 43:59

Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 2

Episode 3 · 39:26

Chapter 2 Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 3

Episode 4 · 51:53

Chapter 3 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought

Episode 5 · 56:52

Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 1

Episode 6 · 45:08

Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 2

Episode 7 · 48:10

Chapter 4 The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, Part 3

Episode 8 · 47:59