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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
 
 
CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record    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
 
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