Elements of Folk Psychology : Outlines of A Psychological History of the Development of Mainkind, Vol. 1

About the Author:- Wilhelm Wundt, Is Known as the Father of Experimental Psychology and Founder of Modern Psychology, Was Born in 1832 in a Small Town in Baden, Germany. Having Obtained a Medical Degree From the University of Heidelberg, He Joined the Same University as a Lecturer in Physiology. It Was Here That He Published His Work On the Theory of Sense Perception and Offered the First Course Even Taught in Scientific Psychology. in 1873-74 He Published the Principle of Physiological Psychology Which Advanced a New System of Psychology and Prescribed a New Methodology for the Examination of Conscious Experience. After He Became a Professor At the University of Leipzig, He Established the First Ever Psychological Laboratory in the World. His Other Outstanding Works Include the Outline of Psychology (1896) and Elements of Folk Psychology (1900-20). Wundt Died in Grossbothen in Germany in 1920. Introduction By Dr. Sila Basa, Ph.d., D.lit., Fras (london). Born in Kolkata, India. 1947. Working as an Academic Attached to the Department of Folklore and Languages Studies with Various Universities. She Is Also Associated with the Training Programmes in Folkloristics of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India. Contents:- Volume 1: Translator's Preface Preface Introduction Chapter Ii the Discovery of Primitive Man the Culture of Primitive Man in Its External Expression the Origin of Marriage and the Family Primitive Society the Beginnings of Language the Thinking of Primitive Man Earliest Beliefs in Magic and Demons the Beginnings of Art the Intellectual and Moral Characteristics of Primitive Man Chapter Ii the Totemic Age the General Character of Totemism the Stages of Totemic Culture Totemic Tribal Organization the Origin of Exogamy Modes of Contracting Marriage the Causes of Totemic Exogamy the Forms of Polygamy the Developmental Forms of Totemism the Origin of Totemic Ideas the Laws of Taboo Soul Beliefs of the Totemic Age