Animism, magic and the divine king.

First edition. A seminal work of psychoanalytic anthropology exploring the psychological underpinnings of primitive cultures. It investigates how animism, magic, and the myth of the divine king originate in the human subconscious, specifically focusing on how these systems deal with primal experiences of sex, death, and tribal life. Contents: Foreword; Animism and the other world (Sympathetic Magic; The Moment of Death and the Soul; Osiris and other Mortals; The Passage of the Dead); The Psychology of Magic (The Black Art; The Rain-Maker; Love Magic); The Medicine-Man (The Sucking Cure; Magic Wand and Medicine Pipe; Mana; The Holy Ghost; Disease and the Art of Healing; Addenda); The Divine King (Introduction; Tammuz and the King; Adonis and other Lords; Attis and Midas; The Pharaoh and other African Kings; Cecrops and other Serpents; The May King; Apollo and Cadmus); The Scapegoat (The King as Scapegoat; Cock and Wren; Mars and the Salii; The Goat of Azazel; Thargelia; Scapegoats and Initiation; Carthartic Ritual); Summary; Index.