Totem and Taboo / Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

by Sigmund Freud

[151] Ibid.

[152] According to Andrew Lang.

[153] Pikler and Somló, The Origin of Totemism, 1901. The authors rightly call their attempt at explanation a “Contribution to the materialistic theory of History.”

[154] The Origin of Animal Worship (Fortnightly Review, 1870). Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, §§ 169 to 176.

[155] Kamilaroi and Kurmai, p. 165, 1880 (Lang, Secret of the Totem, etc.).

[156] See the chapter on Taboo, p. 96.

[157] l.c., Vol. I, p. 41.

[158] Address to the Anthropological Section, British Association, Belfast, 1902. According to Frazer, l.c., Vol. IV, p. 50.

[159] The Native Tribes of Central Australia, by Baldwin Spencer and H. J. Gillen, London, 1891.

[160] There is nothing vague or mystical about it, nothing of that metaphysical haze which some writers love to conjure up over the humblest beginnings of human speculation but which is utterly foreign to the simple, sensuous, and concrete modes of the savage. (Totemism and Exogamy, I., p. 117.)