Totem and Taboo

Name: Totem and Taboo
Author: Sigmund Freud

by Sigmund Freud

Anthropological exploration of primitive societies and psychological development

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Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, the most influential theory of the mind in the 20th century. The Interpretation of Dreams proposed that unconscious wishes, revealed in dreams and slips of the tongue, are the key to understanding the mind. His work transformed psychiatry, literature, and culture, though much of it has been scientifically contested.

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