>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:42:45 -0500 "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka at home.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>I'm almost certain it was Totem and Taboo, but I can't verify with a page ref.
>
>ken
Freud's use of recapitulation theory can be found in the epilogue to his reflection s on Paul Schreber (1912):
"What we said was that in the dream and in neurosis we meet the child again, together with everything that is typical of child's way of thinking and feeling. We should add: we encounter the savage as well, the primitive human being as shown to us in the light of archaeology and ethnography."
As Piet de Rooy then notes:
"It was the familiar threefold parallel, the normal child, the remote ancestor and the primitive , now complemented by a fourth: the neurotic adult."
>From his "Ernst Haeckel's Theory of Recapitulation" in *Imperial Monkey
Business: Racial Supremacy in Social Darwinist Theory and Colonial
Practice*, ed. Jan Bremen, Piet de Rooy Ann Stoler and Wim Wertheim.
Amsterdam: VU Press, 1990, p. 32
yrs, rakesh