Sigmund Freud, Totem und Tabu: einige übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics]

Scott Brewster (University of Lincoln)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Domains

Anthropology
Psychoanalysis

Dates

First circulation or publication 1913

Places

Czech Republic (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection

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Totem and Taboo

comprises four essays originally published separately in the journal

Imago

between 1912 and 1913. The first essay, “The Horror of Incest”, was published in March 1912; “Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence” was delivered to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society on 15th May 1912, and published later that year. The third and fourth essays, “Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts” and “The Return of Totemism in Childhood” were presented to the Vienna Society on 15th January and 4th June 1913 respectively, and then subsequently published that year in the second volume of

Imago

. The first English-language publication was in a translation by A. A. Brill (New York, 1918; London, 1919). Within the next twelve years the book was translated into Hungarian (1918),…

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Citation: Brewster, Scott. "Totem und Tabu: einige übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8405, accessed 25 November 2024.]