Totem And Taboo

This landmark collection of essays by the father of psychoanalysis explores the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization. Freud identifies a strong unconscious inclination as the basis of taboo, a forbidden behavior, and traces its earliest appearance to the childhood development of totemism. Previous owner's name blacked out.

Softcover. English. Ark. 1938. 1983. 172 pp. In fair condition, inscription inside. Book No: 25038578