Totem And Taboo Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages a
The book Totem And Taboo Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages a was written by author Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Here you can read free online of Totem And Taboo Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages a book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Totem And Taboo Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages a a good or bad book?
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Bound up with this is the further fact that these animal ancestors possessed a cult. . . . Aside from specific cere- monies and ceremonial festivals, this animal cult originally found expression primarily in the relations maintained towards the totem animal. It was not merely a particular animal that was to a certain extent held sacred, but every representative of the species. The totem members were forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal, or were allowed to do so only under specific con...ditions. A significant counter-phenomenon, not irreconcil- able with this, is the fact that on certain occasions the eating of the totem flesh constituted a sort of ceremony. . . . ' '. . . The most important social aspect of this totemic tribal 106 The Return of Totemism in Childhood organization, however, consists in the fact that it involved cer- tain norms of custom regulating the intercourse of the separate groups with one another. Of these norms, those governing mar- riage relations were of first importance.
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