SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

Totem and Taboo · Totem und Tabu

Sigmund Freud

Translated by A. A. Brill

Four essays that carry psychoanalysis into anthropology: the dread of incest, taboo and ambivalence, magic and the omnipotence of thought, and the totem meal, in German and English.

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  • German: Sigmund Freud, Totem und Tabu (Leipzig and Vienna: Hugo Heller, 1913), Project Gutenberg #37065.
  • English: A. A. Brill’s translation (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1918; London: Routledge, 1919), Project Gutenberg #41214. Freud’s preface and Brill’s introduction are left out. Aligned chapter by chapter, by meaning; footnotes are not included.

Contents · 16

  1. 1I · The Savage’s Dread of Incest · 1 of 2
  2. 2I · The Savage’s Dread of Incest · 2 of 2
  3. 3II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 1 of 6
  4. 4II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 2 of 6
  5. 5II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 3 of 6
  6. 6II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 4 of 6
  7. 7II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 5 of 6
  8. 8II · Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions · 6 of 6
  9. 9III · Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought · 1 of 2
  10. 10III · Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought · 2 of 2
  11. 11IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 1 of 6
  12. 12IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 2 of 6
  13. 13IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 3 of 6
  14. 14IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 4 of 6
  15. 15IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 5 of 6
  16. 16IV · The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism · 6 of 6