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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

Name: Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
Author: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud; trans. A. A. Brill

Read by Mary Schneider · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License · Translated by Abraham Arden Brill

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Chapters

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0 - Introductory Notes (9:55)
1 - The Savage's Dread of Incest (40:48)
2 - Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 1 (43:59)
3 - Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 2 (39:26)
4 - Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions, Part 3 (51:53)
5 - Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought (56:52)
6 - The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism (45:08)
7 - The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, part 2 (48:10)
8 - The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism, part 3 (47:59)

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