SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Misgivings, Specific Phobia, Libido
24 Mar 2016
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Totem and taboo: the horror of incest, 5. To us it means, on the one hand, sacred", consecrated", and on the other uncanny", dangerous", forbidden", unclean" taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. Wunt writes of that concept that it comprises all of the usages in which is expressed a dread of certain objects related to cult ideas or of actions connected to them": 33. That fear had not yet split up into the two forms into which it later develops: veneration and horror: 34. The most obvious and striking point of agreement between the obsessional prohibitions of neurotics and taboos is that these prohibitions are equally lacking in motive and equally puzzling in their origin. Having made their appearance at some unspecified moment, they are forcibly maintained by an irresistible fear. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: 35.
