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Freud investigates the function and structure of totemic systems among primitive peoples and presents a psychoanalytical study of modern taboos.

Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.

Adducing evidence from "primitive" tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the oedipal phase, and speculations by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts to trap the moment that civilized life began. It stands as his most imaginative venture into the psychoanalysis of culture.

Note
Author's Preface
Translator's Introduction
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