Totem And Taboo

This is Volume IX of twenty-eight in the Psychoanalysis series. First published in 1950, the four essays comprised in this volume were originally published in the pages of the periodical Imago (Vienna) under the title 'Dber einige Obereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker'. Chapter 1 The Horror of Incest; Chapter 2 Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Chapter 3 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; Chapter 4 The Return of Totemism in Childhood;