The Vicissitudes of Totemism

One Hundred Years After Totem and Taboo
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-32908-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud's work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Levi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, althou

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lucas, Gerard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Introduction -- An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War -- From the 1920s to the Second World War -- Returning to the circumstances of the publication and translation of Totem and Taboo -- Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War -- Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient -- The misfortunes of ambition -- The evolution of practices -- Beyond nature and culture -- The new possibility of discussions on the principle axes of Freud's thought in Totem and Taboo -- Totem and Taboo, politics, and law -- Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo -- The price of murderous consent? -- Summary of the main lines of Freud's essay

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard Lucas is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and honorary training member of the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris. He has run various institutions in Paris, including the Alfred Binet Centre from 1978 to 2006, and is the author of numerous books and articles. In 2014 the International Psychoanalytical Association named him vice-president for Europe of its Organisational Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.