[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-40794-en":3,"doc-seo-40794-105":30,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":90},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":20,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":21,"is_downloadable":21,"audit_status":21,"page_count":22,"language":23,"language_code":24,"site_id":25,"html_lang":24,"table_of_contents":26,"faqs":27,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":28,"read_time":29},40794,1374391974468,"Eden","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_29158cc5080c5b710cf443261637dec0",2,"Literature","Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo Routledge","Totem and Taboo collects four early essays by Sigmund Freud that apply psychoanalytic perspectives to problems of social psychology and the origins of religion and morality. The volume traces key themes including incest and taboo, emotional ambivalence in social prohibitions, animism and magic alongside the perceived omnipotence of thoughts, and the return of totemism in childhood. The translator’s note and preface document the publication history across editions and emphasize careful verification of quotations and references, as well as revisions to earlier German texts.","Totem and Taboo  \n‘Freud has told us that for him all natural science, medicine, and psychotherapy were a lifelong journey round and back to the early passion of his youth for the history of mankind, for the origins of religion and morality – an interest which at the height of his career broke out to such magnificent effect in Totem and Taboo.’  \nThomas Mann  \n‘Relations between social anthropology and psychology are still ill-defined and unstable. But in any resolution of them the work of psychoanalysts must betaken very seriously into account. It is very useful, then, to have this new translation of the pioneer work.’  \nNature  \n‘Freud had a strong element of the artist in his composition. Nearly all his work was well translated into English, with one glaring exception: Totem and Taboo. Now, at last ... justice has been done. . . . The book itself is one of the most fascinating and characteristic, and also of the most speculative, in the whole Freudian canon.’  \nBooks of the Month  \nSigmund  \nFreud  \nTotem and Taboo  \nSome Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics  \nAuthorized translation by James Strachey  \nLondon and  \nNew York  \nFirst published 1913 by Hugo Heller  \nEnglish edition first published in the United Kingdom 1919  \nby George Routledge & Sons  \nThis translation first published 1950 by Routledge & Kegan Paul  \nFirst published in Routledge Classics 2001  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Translation © 1950 Routledge & Kegan Paul  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-16470-9 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-25893-2 (Adobe eReader Format)  \nISBN 0–415–25387–X (Print Edition)  \nCONTENTS  \nTranslator’s Note vii  \nP reface ix  \nP reface to the H ebrew T ranslation xiii  \n1 The Horror of Incest 1  \n2 Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence 21  \n3 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts 87  \n4 The Return of Totemism in Childhood 116  \nL ist of Works referred to in the Text 188  \nI ndex 195  \nTRANSLATOR’S NOTE  \nAs Freud explains in his own preface, the four essays comprised in this volume were originally published in the pages of the periodical Imago (Vienna) under the title ‘Über einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker’[‘On Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics’]—the first and second essays in Vol. I (1912) and the third and fourth in Vol. II (1913) . All four essays were collected and published under the new title of Totem und Tabu in 1913 (Vienna, Hugo Heller) . New editions appeared in 1920, 1922 and 1934 and the work was included in Volume X of Freud’s Gesammelte Schriften (Vienna, 1924) and as Volume IX of his Gesammelte Werke (London, 1940) . None of these later editions show any variations of substance from the original one. An English translation by A. A. Brill was published in New York in 1918 (London, 1919) . The book has also been translated into Hungarian (1918), Spanish (1923), Portuguese (n.d.), French (1924), Japanese (twice, 1930 and 1934) and Hebrew (1939) . The last of these was introduced by a specially written preface, which,  \nviii translator’s note  \non account of its particular interest, I have included in this volume.  \nFor the purposes of the present, entirely new, version I have made an effort to verify all quotations and references so far as possible; and I have put right a considerable number of inaccuracies which had crept into the German editions. Particular","cbCaiaylcqQGP7mG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaylcqQGP7mG","pdf",724106,4,1,216,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Translator’s Note\n## Preface\n## The Horror of Incest\n## Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence\n## Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts\n## The Return of Totemism in Childhood\n## List of Works referred to in the Text\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Totem and Taboo?\",\"answer\":\"The book brings psycho-analysis to unresolved questions in social psychology, with particular attention to the origins of religion and morality.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the essay “The Horror of Incest” address?\",\"answer\":\"It examines incest as a foundational taboo and explores its psychological and cultural significance.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of sources and editions are discussed in the translator’s note?\",\"answer\":\"The note details earlier original publication in Imago, subsequent collections under the title Totem und Tabu, and the history of English and other translations, alongside verification of quotations and corrections to German editions.\"}]",1783315129,333,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":25,"language":24,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":28},"sigmund-freud-totem-and-taboo-routledge","",{"@graph":36,"@context":84},[37,52,67],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,47,50],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":21},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":48,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":49},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/sigmund-freud-totem-and-taboo-routledge/40794/",{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":24,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":41,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-12","2026-07-06",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"What is the central focus of Totem and Taboo?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"The book brings psycho-analysis to unresolved questions in social psychology, with particular attention to the origins of religion and morality.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"What does the essay “The Horror of Incest” address?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"It examines incest as a foundational taboo and explores its psychological and cultural significance.",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"What kinds of sources and editions are discussed in the translator’s note?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"The note details earlier original publication in Imago, subsequent collections under the title Totem und Tabu, and the history of English and other translations, alongside verification of quotations and corrections to German editions.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":25},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,96,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":21,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},80,"literature",{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]