The Vicissitudes of Totemism : One Hundred Years after Totem and Taboo.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War -- CHAPTER TWO From the 1920s to the Second World War -- CHAPTER THREE Returning to the circumstances of the publication and translation of Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER FOUR Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War -- CHAPTER FIVE Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient -- CHAPTER SIX The misfortunes of ambition -- CHAPTER SEVEN The evolution of practices -- CHAPTER EIGHT Beyond nature and culture -- CHAPTER NINE The new possibility of discussions on the principal axes of Freud's thought in Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER TEN Totem and Taboo, politics, and law -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER TWELVE The price of murderous consent? -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

This book is primarily a bibliographical research on anthropological texts about Totem and Taboo written in English and in French. It examines how Freud's thesis has been received by anthropologists and ethnologists as a way of dealing with parricide.

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