The problem of taboo, states Professor Freud, "is presented more exhaustively, and the effort to solve it is approached with perfect confidence," due largely to the fact that taboo still exists in our midst, although sometimes "it is negatively conceived and directed to different contents." Readers will find this book an important guide to the fundamental elements of primitive and contemporary culture.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). E search is made in "Totem and Taboo" for the original meaning of totemism through its infantile traces - that is, the indications in which it reappears in the development of children in our own civilisation. These resemblances he sees in terms of "totems," the hereditary emblems of groups or clans, and "taboos," the restrictions and prohibitions which the social group puts upon its members. The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism.' ***'In this comprehensive study of primitive psychology Professor Freud explains the similarities between savages and our own society. Animism, Magic, and the Omnipotence of Thought, IV. Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, III. ***246 pages including an eight page publisher's catalogue at the back of the book. Spine of dustwrapper just slightly darkened, with a strip of darkening to the front panel of the dustwrapper. Slight wear and very slight loss to the edges of the dustwrapper. The dustwrapper still retains the 6d printed price to the corner of the front flap, which is often found clipped. ***In a very good thin original dustwrapper, which has some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling. Internally the pages are clean, although the paper has browned over the decades.
Light reading crease to the spine, otherwise no creases. The card wrappers are near fine, clean and unmarked - protected by the original dustwrapper. ***Near fine in monochrome illustrated black printed turquoise-blue and white wrappers. The work was originally published in the UK by George Routledge & Sons, Limited in 1919. A first impression of the first UK paperback edition, published as a Penguin Special in 1938.
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