TOTEM AND TABOO
BY DR. S. FREUD
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TOTEM AND TABOO
RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN THE PSYCHIC
LIVES OF SAVAGES AND NEUROTICS
BY
PROFESSOR SIGMUND FREUD, Ll.D.
Authorized English Translation,
with Introduction by
A. A. BRILL, Ph.B., M.D.
Asst. Prof. of Psychiatry, N.Y. Post-Graduate Medical
School; Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and Abnormal
Psychology, New York University;
former Chief of Clinic of Psychiatry,
Columbia University
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE
THE essays treated here appeared under the subtitle of this book in thefirst numbers of the periodical Imago edited by me. They represent myfirst efforts to apply view-points and results of psychoanalysis tounexplained problems of racial psychology. In method this book contrastswith that of W. Wundt and the works of the Zurich Psychoanalytic School.The former tries to accomplish the same object through assumptions andprocedures from non-analytic psychology, while the latter follow theopposite course and strive to settle problems of individual psychologyby referring to material of racial psychology[1]. I am pleased to saythat the first stimulus for my own works came from these two sources.
I am fully aware of the shortcomings in these essays. I shall not touchupon those which are characteristic of first efforts at investigation.The others, however, demand a word of explanation. The four essayswhich are here collected will be of interest to a wide circle ofeducated people, but they can only be thoroughly understood and judgedby those who are really acquainted with psychoanalysis as such. It ishoped that they may serve as a bond between students of ethnology,philology, folklore and of the allied sciences, and psychoanalysts; theycannot, however, supply both