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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| 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
