Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud
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Totem and Taboo

Author: Sigmund Freud

Narrator: Victoria Styles

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2025

Synopsis

"Totem and Taboo" by Sigmund Freud explores the origins of human culture, religion, and morality through a psychoanalytic lens. Freud draws parallels between primitive societies and modern neuroses, examining totemism, taboos, and the Oedipus complex. He argues that primal emotions and unconscious drives shape societal structures, including laws and religious practices. By analyzing rituals, myths, and prohibitions, Freud delves into the psychological underpinnings of group identity and authority. A groundbreaking work, it bridges anthropology and psychoanalysis, offering provocative insights into the shared roots of individual and collective behavior. Though controversial, it remains a foundational text for understanding human nature.

About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century, Freud's theories have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. Freud's fundamental idea was that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy. His first major work was The Interpretation of Dreams, which established the importance of the psychoanalytical movement. His other writings include Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Future of an Illusion, The Ego and the Id, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leonard on December 10, 2019

Totem et tabou est un ouvrage publié vers 1913, à partir d’une série de quatre essais publiés antérieurement par Freud dans la revue psychanalytique Imago (qu’il avait lui-même fondée). Il y aborde des problématiques anthropologiques, prises sous l’angle de sa propre théorie de l’inconscient et de s......more

Goodreads review by Cărăşălu on January 18, 2013

It's my first book by Freud and it was... impressive. First of all, I must praise his writing style (or, perhaps, the translator). It's a very readable book even if you are a total newbie to the subject matter of the book, and it's not some ordinary subject matter: combining anthropological data and......more

Goodreads review by M&A on July 18, 2019

"توتم و تابو"از مهمترین آثار "زیگموند فروید" در حیطه ی مردم شناسی است."فروید"در این اثر به بررسی دو موضوع تابو و توتم می پردازد. وی نخست به تاریخچه ی پیدایش این دو مفهوم اشاره می کند و سپس به بررسی زمینه های پیدایش آن ها. از نگاه فروید، انسان اولیه در رمه زندگی می کرد. بر این رمه، پدری حکمرانی می نم......more

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