Pagan Rites in Judaism From Sex Initiation, Moon-cult, Tattooing, Mutilation, and Other Primitive Rituals to Family Loyalty and Solidarity by Theodor Reik

Pagan Rites in Judaism From Sex Initiation, Moon-cult, Tattooing, Mutilation, and Other Primitive Rituals to Family Loyalty and Solidarity

Theodor Reik

206 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction religion
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This book shows how much of the pagan and prehistoric survive in the rites of Judaism as they are performed today. A forgotten but never emotionally conquered past is reawakened in these essays, which rank close to Freud's famous Totem and Taboo.

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