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...owth of the totemic clan, and the [[conditions]] for this possibility of [[thought]]. See also: Act/action; Ambivalence; Animistic thought; Anthropology and psychoanalysis; [[Castration]] [[complex]]; [[Cultural]]

The belief that ideas are all-powerful is inherent in animistic thought and belief systems but also common in obsessional neurosis, where the same

...associations]] from occurring, to obstruct the forming of connections in [[thought]], the ego is complying with one of the oldest and most fundamental command ...the Unconscious, points toward [[animism]], magic, and the omnipotence of thought—in short, to a study of [[narcissism]]. And the analogy, almost the [[ide

...of their beliefs, as distinct from the [[religious]] and [[scientific]] [[thought]] of western [[culture]]. This universalizing, comparative, and evolutionis ...neage from a clan's totem] leads us deep into the <i>totemic</i> habits of thought of primitive peoples. The totem . . . spares the members of the tribe as [[

Action-[[thought]] (H. Kohut) Animistic thought

...such as conceptions of [[death]], mechanisms of projection, and sexualized thought—as are found in magical beliefs or [[animism]] (1912-1913a). Freud hypoth The notion of the primitive occupies a central [[place]] in Freud's thought. It is the equivalent, at the collective level, to the [[infantile]] at the