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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Nature of Taboo in Indigenous Practices Chapter 3: Taboo, order, disorder, abjection and dirtChapter 4: Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structureChapter 5: The Origin and Positioning of Incest TabooChapter 6: Taboo, and emotional ambivalence; Chapter 7: Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate statesChapter 8: Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysisChapter 9: Conclusion

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Taboo, Personal andCollectiveRepresentationsOrigin and Positioning within CulturalComplexes

Elizabeth Brodersen, C. G. Jung Institute, Switzerland

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed and disorder as polluted/disassociated.Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, origins of religion, race, gender, and depth psychology.

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"Dr Brodersen has taken a broad interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of taboo to examine it from multiple angles, building on classic and modern treatments of the subject to introduce it into new areas of understanding. In particular, Brodersen carefully weaves together a tapestry on the subject that brings its many facets into view beautifully, showing just how relevant the topic is with respect to human development and psychodynamic clinical theory. Bringing an inclusive but also nuanced and precise approach to the subject of taboo, Brodersen presents an excellent interdisciplinary contribution to the study of ritual, religious/magical thinking and the mind."

Erik Goodwyn MD, Director, Psychotherapy Training, University of Louisville, USA.