Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.
First Edition in English of Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo; With the Rare Original Dust Jacket
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.
FREUD, Sigmund.
$2,000.00
Item Number: 147070
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918.
First American edition of Freud’s classic collection of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung inspired essays. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, ownership inscription to the front pastedown and light marginalia. An excellent example, rare in the original publisher’s dust jacket with $2.00 price and publisher’s list.
'Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.,' originally published in German as 'Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker,' is one of the controversial classic works of anthropology, concerning itself with incest taboos, animism, narcissistic phase, and society in its relation to "primitive" practices.
