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Totem And Taboo

By: Sigmund Freud
Narrated by: Mary Schneider
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"Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics" is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913.

It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal "Imago" (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.

The four essays are entitled: "The Horror of Incest"; "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence"; "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts" and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood".
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awful audio quality and amateurish narrator

Absolutely would not recommend. audio jumps around, you can hear all sorts of background noise, and the narrator can't keep pace to save her life.

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