Essay: “A Critical Analysis of Sigmund Freud’s “Totem and Taboo” (1913); “The Future of an Illusion” (1927)”

By Madison S. Hughes (09.09.2009)

Between 1912 and 1913 Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) wrote four essays, later compiled in the book (Totem and Taboo (TT), W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1950) in an attempt to apply psychoanalysis—which he founded—to discover the origins of civilized life. Initially it was not well received from the anthropological community, but in later years it came to be more accepted.   

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