Elements of Folk Psychology

About this eBook

Author

Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 1832-1920

Title

Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

Credits

E-text prepared by Clare Graham, Heather Strickland, and Marc D'Hooghe ( www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology

Subject

Ethnopsychology

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44138

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44138

Release Date

November 8, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY — OUTLINES OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY — OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND — BY
2. 2.WILHELM WUNDT — AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION — BY — EDWARD LEROY SCHAUB, Ph.D. — Professor of Philosophy in Northwestern University — TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I — PRIMITIVE MAN — 1. THE DISCOVERY OF PRIMITIVE MAN. — 2. THE CULTURE OF PRIMITIVE MAN IN ITS EXTERNAL EXPRESSIONS. — 3. THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY. — 4. PRIMITIVE SOCIETY. — 5. THE BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE. — 6. THE THINKING OF PRIMITIVE MAN. — 7. EARLIEST BELIEFS IN MAGIC AND DEMONS. — 8. THE BEGINNINGS OF ART. — 9. THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMITIVE MAN. — CHAPTER II — THE TOTEMIC AGE — 1. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF TOTEMISM. — 2. THE STAGES OF TOTEMIC CULTURE. — 3. TOTEMIC TRIBAL ORGANIZATION. [1] — 4. THE ORIGIN OF EXOGAMY. — 5. MODES OF CONTRACTING MARRIAGE. — 6. THE CAUSES OF TOTEMIC EXOGAMY. — 7. THE FORMS OF POLYGAMY. — 8. THE DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TOTEMISM. — 9. THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMIC IDEAS. — 10. THE LAWS OF TABOO. — 11. SOUL BELIEFS OF THE TOTEMIC AGE. — 12. THE ORIGIN OF THE FETISH. — 13. THE ANIMAL ANCESTOR AND THE HUMAN ANCESTOR. — 14. THE TOTEMIC CULTS. — 15. THE ART OF THE TOTEMIC AGE. — CHAPTER III — THE AGE OF HEROES AND GODS — 1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HEROIC AGE — 2. THE EXTERNAL CULTURE OF THE HEROIC AGE. — 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. — 4. FAMILY ORGANIZATION WITHIN POLITICAL SOCIETY. — 5. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CLASSES. — 6. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF VOCATIONS. — 7. THE ORIGIN OF CITIES. — 8. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM. — 9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PENAL LAW. — 10. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF LEGAL FUNCTIONS. — 11. THE ORIGIN OF GODS. — 13. COSMOGONIC AND THEOGONIC MYTHS. — 14. THE BELIEF IN SOULS AND IN A WORLD BEYOND. — 15. THE ORIGIN OF DEITY CULTS. — 16. THE FORMS OF CULT PRACTICES. — 17. THE ART OF THE HEROIC AGE. — CHAPTER IV — THE DEVELOPMENT TO HUMANITY — 1. THE CONCEPT 'HUMANITY.' — 2. WORLD EMPIRES. — 3. WORLD CULTURE. — 4. WORLD RELIGIONS. — 5. WORLD HISTORY. — INDEX

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.