Géza Róheim considered Totem and Taboo one of the great landmarks in the history of anthropology, comparable only to Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture and Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough. René Girard comments that, "Contemporary criticism is almost unanimous in finding unacceptable the theories set forth in Totem and Taboo," and that, "Everyone seems intent on covering Totem and Taboo with obloquy and condemning it to oblivion." Girard views the work differently, noting that Freud's concept of collective murder is close to the themes of his own work.
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Totem and Taboo
Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics
Sigmund Freud
1919
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