Ahoy Freudians!

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Fri Feb 18 09:00:57 PST 2000


On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jeffrey St. Clair wrote:


> Any of you recall in which essay Frreuds cribbed from the
> Darwinians/Lamarkians the phrase, "ontogeny recaptiptulates
> philogeny"? Was it Totem and Taboo? Civilization and It's Ds? Moses
> and Monotheism? JSC

Yes, Totem and Taboo, on the relation of the superego to the vagaries of the primal horde. (Stephen Jay Gould's essay on the phrase dates from the mid-'70s.)

--C. G. Estabrook



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