Description
Product ID: | 9780415253871 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Classics |
Title: | Totem and Taboo |
Authors: | Author: Sigmund Freud |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read. Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud''s greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud''s most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they''re all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud''s theories have influenced every facet of modern life, from film and literature to medicine and art. If you don''t know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we''re living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-05-17 |