The vicissitudes of totemism : one hundred years after totem and taboo / Gerard Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Gerard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Totem und Tabu.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis.

Neuroses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud's work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Levi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, although a number of prominent members of the English school of Social Anthropology contested this view, describing the direction adumbrated by Freud's enquiry as "highly pertinent".Totemism appears in Freud's work as a way of dealing with one of the canonical forms of human destructiveness, namely parricide. Why did eminent men find it impossible to utilise Freud's book and those studies that followed it in the interwar period The mass murders in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, however different they may have been, both generated a profound sense of horror that made their consequences largely unrepresentable for Europeans for more than thirty years. Did this delay, and the attitudes of the following generations towards authority, result from an unconscious logic of "resistance" aimed at re-establishing refusals that did not take place at the time? The Western world seems to have forgotten the strength of the mixed family ties of tribes, casts, and religions that are in fact at work in the psychic life of a great number of men and women in the world."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter 1 An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War / Gérard Lucas

chapter 2 From the 1920s to the Second World War / Gérard Lucas

chapter 3 Returning to the circumstances of the publication and translation of Totem and Taboo / Gérard Lucas

chapter 4 Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War / Gérard Lucas

chapter 5 Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient / Gérard Lucas

chapter 6 The misfortunes of ambition / Gérard Lucas

chapter 7 The evolution of practices / Gérard Lucas

chapter 8 Beyond nature and culture / Gérard Lucas

chapter 9 The new possibility of discussions on the principle axes of Freud’s thought in Totem and Taboo / Gérard Lucas

chapter 10 Totem and Taboo, politics, and law / Gérard Lucas

chapter 11 Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo / Gérard Lucas

chapter 12 The price of murderous consent? / Gérard Lucas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-92271-X

0-429-90848-2

0-429-48371-6

1-78241-413-4

9780429483714

OCLC:

927490333