Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Esoteric Classics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631185687)

Freud drew the concept of animism from anthropologists such as Herbert Spencer, James George Frazer, Andrew Lang, Edward Burnett Tyler, and Wilhelm Wundt, who used it to refer to the tendency, thought to belong to people in primitive cultures and children, of attributing a soul to things and thus ascribing an intentionality to phenomena that would otherwise be understood in mechanistic causal terms. In psychoanalysis, the concept of animism is inextricably connected with projective mechanisms.

Author: Sigmund Freud
ISBN-10: 1631185683
ISBN-13: 9781631185687
Publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2021
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d