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Totem and taboo

by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

22 chapters, about 55,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. AUTHOR’S PREFACE 300 words
2. TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION 700 words
3. THE SAVAGE’S DREAD OF INCEST 5,500 words
4. 1 2,800 words
5. 2 3,300 words
6. 3 500 words
7. (_A_) THE TREATMENT OF ENEMIES 1,700 words
8. (_B_) THE TABOO OF RULERS 4,000 words
9. (_C_) THE TABOO OF THE DEAD 4,300 words
10. 4 3,400 words
11. 1 900 words
12. 2 2,900 words
13. 3 1,700 words
14. 4 3,000 words
15. 1 1,900 words
16. 2 5,500 words
17. 3 2,000 words
18. 4 2,700 words
19. 5 2,000 words
20. 6 2,800 words
21. 7 2,000 words
22. FOOTNOTES: 800 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Animal
• Animism
• Sacrifice
• Taboo
• Widow

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