by Sigmund Freud · ISBN 9782228881272
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«Totem et tabou» is Sigmund Freud's essay, published by Éditions Payot in paperback (240 pages, in French).
In this essay, Freud examines the function and structure of totemic systems among so-called primitive peoples and proposes a psychoanalytic interpretation of social life, paying attention to modern taboos and their relationship with the prohibitions of ancestral societies.
Revised edition (1965), translated from German by Serge Jankélévitch; ninth volume in the Petite bibliothèque Payot collection, with bibliographical references.
For those approaching psychoanalysis or studying philosophy and social anthropology.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
