What is it about?
The evolution of human society, religion, God, and Oedipal object relations from ancient pre-human savages to the present, according to Haeckel's biogenetic law, i.e. ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Why is it important?
The paper traces of the ancestral evolutionary and genetic lineages of human religion, God, society, and interpersonal relatedness.
Perspectives
Freud's formulation regarding the evolutionary interrelationships between God, religion, society, and the Oedipal complex in Totem and Taboo appears to approximate the truth.
Dr Paul J Schwartz
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
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This page is a summary of: The phylogenetic legacy of Freud's totem protoGod, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, February 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12404.
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