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Totem and Taboo
The totem feast, which is perhaps mankind’s first celebration, would be the repetition and commemoration of this memorable, criminal act [patricide] with which so many things began, social organization, moral restrictions and religion.
Chapter IV.
Sigmund
Freud

Totem and Taboo

Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

Sigmund Freud

Bibliographic Record

Contents

 Author’s Introduction    Translator’s Introduction
TRANSLATED BY A. A. BRILL
NEW YORK: MOFFAT, YARD & Co., 1918
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

I. The Savage’s Dread of Incest
II. Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions
III. Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought
IV. The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism