Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) TOTEM AND TABOO BY DR. S. FREUD _New Books on Psycho-Analysis._ _WHAT IS PSYCHO-ANALYSIS?_ By I. H. CORIAT. 3_s._ 6_d._ net. _THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS._ By Dr. C. G. J<small>UNG</small>. 21_s._ net. _THE PSYCHO-ANALYTIC METHOD._ By PROF. O. PFISTER. 21_s._ net. _MAN’S UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICT._ By Dr. W. LAY. 7_s._ 6_d._ net. _THE CHILD’S UNCONSCIOUS MIND._ By Dr. W. LAY. 7_s._ 6_d._ net. _MENTAL CONFLICTS AND MISCONDUCT._ By W. HEALY. 10_s._ 6_d._ net. _PSYCHOLOGY OF SPECIAL ABILITIES AND DISABILITIES._ By A. F. B<small>RONNER</SMALL>. 10_s._ 6_d._ net. _THE NEUROTIC CONSTITUTION._ By Dr. ALFRED ADLER. _THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE._ By EMILE BOINAC. _PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NORMAL AND SUBNORMAL._ By H. H. G<small>ODDARD</small>. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD., London. TOTEM AND TABOO RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN THE PSYCHIC LIVES OF SAVAGES AND NEUROTICS BY PROFESSOR SIGMUND FREUD, L<small>l</small>.D. Authorized English Translation, with Introduction by A. A. BRILL, Ph.B., M.D. Asst. Prof. of Psychiatry, N.Y. Post-Graduate Medical School; Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and Abnormal Psychology, New York University; former Chief of Clinic of Psychiatry, Columbia University [Illustration: colophon] LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED 1919 _Printed in Great Britain by_ Butler & Tanner. _Frome and London_ AUTHOR’S PREFACE The essays treated here appeared under the subtitle of this book in the first numbers of the periodical _Imago_ edited by me. They represent my first efforts to apply view-points and results of psychoanalysis to unexplained problems of racial psychology. In method this book contrasts with that of W. Wundt and the works of the Zurich Psychoanalytic School. The former tries to accomplish the same object through assumptions and procedures from non-analytic psychology, while the latter follow the opposite course and strive to settle problems of individual psychology by referring to material of racial psychology[1]. I am pleased to say that the first stimulus for my own works came from these two sources.