1st Edition

The Primitive Mind And Modern Civilization

By Aldrich, Charles Roberts Copyright 1999
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1999. This is Volume I of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1931, this book looks at the psychology of the 'primitive' or a man who represents the common stuff of human nature, in an attempt to close the divide between anthropology and psychology. Two hypotheses, the existence and activity of a racial unconscious as the fundamental basis of cultural... Read more
Chapter 1 The Method; Chapter 2 Some Psychological Details; Chapter 3 Instincts And Complexes; Chapter 4 Unconscious and Conscious; Chapter 5 Time And The Psyche; Chapter 6 The Primitive Psyche; Chapter 7 Concerning Savages; Chapter 8 Perception; Chapter 9 Representations; Chapter X Mystic Causation and Mystic Part icipation, Bijoy Boruah; Chapter 11 Individual, Group, and Totem, Genest Simon; Chapter 12 Fear Consolidates the Group, Genest Simon; Chapter 13 Ritual Sharing of Desirable Things; Chapter 14 Primitive Socialism; Chapter 15 Education, and Some Orthodox Views; Chapter 16 Mana and Sacred Things; Chapter 17 Some More Divine Objects; Chapter 18 Mana And Taboo; Chapter 19 Tabooed Persons; Chapter 20 Tabooed Persons; Chapter 21 Confession And Rebirth; Chapter 22 Conclusions;

Biography

Charles Roberts Aldrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, C J Jung