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Psycho-Analysis and Anthropology

Nature volume 112, page 761 (1923)Cite this article

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DR. MALINOWSKI'S illuminating letter in NATURE of November 3 contains a reference to what he rightly calls my “harsh judgment” upon Freud's incursion into ethnology. But he has not made it clear that I was criticising the views expressed in “Totem and Taboo” and not Freud's teaching as a whole. For I am in complete agreement with the latter part of Dr. Malinowski's letter, in which he insists upon the value of Freud's reform in psychological method for the solution of anthropological problems.

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SMITH, G. Psycho-Analysis and Anthropology. Nature 112, 761 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112761b0

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