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Totem and Taboos have been the ideal notion of understanding the psychological
analysis on how civilization began. A book translated by James Strachey includes Sigmund Freud's written essays that addressed the idea of the differential entity from the totemic/exogamy systems and taboos. The names of the essays that address the concepts are: "The Horror of Incest", "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence", "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts", and "The return of Totemism in Childhood". In each essay includes the teachings and beliefs of which Sigmund Freud hypothesized. Totem is a rule of an animal (or human) and more unlikely a plant which is related to the whole clan. The word taboo derives from the Polynesians with two different meanings. To most of us, it means sacred and on the other hand, it means strange, treacherous, or dirty. In Polynesian terms, the word taboo (noa) is rather contradicting meaning general or common. Sigmund Freud explains these two ideas and theorized......

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