“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
Sigmund Freud book Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
1910s
Quotes from bookTotem and Taboo
Sigmund FreudOriginal title Totem und Tabu (German, 1913)
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, or Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, is a 1913 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author applies his work to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. It is a collection of four essays inspired by the work of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung and first published in the journal Imago : "The Horror of Incest", "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence", "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts", and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood".
“At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.”
Sigmund Freud book Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo : Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
1910s
