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Authors: Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay
ISBN-13: 9780393001433, ISBN-10: 0393001431
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 1990
Edition: The Standard Edition

Author Biography: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.

Book Synopsis

Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.

Sigmund Freud: A Brief Life, by Peter Gay	ix
Translator's Note	xxv
Preface	xxvii
Preface to the Hebrew Translation	xxxi

1 The Horror of Incest	3
2 Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence	24
3 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts	94
4 The Return of Totemism in Childhood	125

List of Works Referred to in the Text	201
Index	207