The Vicissitudes of Totemism : One Hundred Years After Totem and Taboo (Paperback)

Preface -- Introduction -- An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War -- From the 1920s to the Second World War -- Returning to the circumstances of the publication and translation of Totem and Taboo -- Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War -- Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient -- The misfortunes of ambition -- The evolution of practices -- Beyond nature and culture -- The new possibility of discussions on the principle axes of Freud’s thought in Totem and Taboo -- Totem and Taboo, politics, and law -- Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo -- The price of murderous consent? -- Summary of the main lines of Freud’s essay