The secret of the totem religion and society from McLennan to Freud

Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Robert Alun (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press c2005.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798098306719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Totemism as Animal Worship
  • 2. Totemism as Sacrament
  • 3. Totemism as Utility
  • 4. Totemism as Self-Transcendence
  • 5. Totemism as Neurosis
  • Conclusion. The Secret of the Totem
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index