[190] “If it be granted that exogamy existed in practice, on the lines
of Mr. Darwin’s theory, before the totem beliefs lent to the practice a
_sacred_ sanction, our task is relatively easy. The first practical rule
would be that of the jealous sire: ‘No males to touch the females in my
camp,’ with expulsion of adolescent sons. _In efflux of time that rule,
becoming habitual_, would be, ‘No marriages within the local group.’
Next let the local groups receive names such as Emus, Crows, Opossums,
Snipes, and the rule becomes, ‘No marriage within the local group of
animal name; no Snipe to marry a Snipe.’ But, if the primal groups were
not exogamous they would become so as soon as totemic myths and taboos
were developed out of the animal, vegetable, and other names of small
local groups.”--‘_Secret of the Totem_’, p. 143. (The italics above are
mine).--In his last expression on the subject (_Folklore_, December,
1911), Andrew Lang states, however, that he has given up the derivation
of exogamy out of the “general totemic” taboo.
[A] M. Wulff, _Contributions to Infantile Sexuality_, _Zentralbl. f.
Psychoanalyze_, 1912, II, No. I, p. 15.
[191] _Little Hans_, trans. by A. A. Brill (Moffat, Yard & Co., N.Y.).
[192] _l.c._, p. 41.
[193] ‘The Phantasy of the Giraffe,’ _l.c._, p. 30.
[194] S. Ferenczi, _Contributions to Psychoanalysis_, p. 204, translated
by Ernest Jones (Badger, Boston, 1916).
[195] Compare the communications of Reitler, Ferenczi, Rank, and Eder
about the substitution of blindness in the Oedipus myth for castration.
_Intern. Zeitschrift f. ärtzl. Psychoanalyze_, 1913, I, No. 2.
[196] Ferenczi, _l.c._, p. 209.
[197] Ferenczi, _l.c._, p. 212.
[198] Frazer finds that the essence of totemism is in this
identification: “Totemism is an identification of a man with his totem.”
_Totemism and Exogamy_, IV, p. 5.
[199] I am indebted to Otto Rank for the report of a case of dog phobia
in an intelligent young man whose explanation of how he acquired his
ailment sounds remarkably like the totem theory of the Aruntas mentioned
above. He had heard from his father that his mother at one time during
her pregnancy had been frightened by a dog.
[200] _The Religion of the Semites_, Second Edition, London, 1907.
[201] _The Religion of the Semites_, Second Edition, London, 1907.
[202] “The inference is that the domestication to which totemism leads
(when there are any animals capable of domestication) is fatal to
totemism.” Jevons, _Introduction to the History of Religion_, 1911,
fifth edition, p. 120.
[203] _l.c._, p. 313.
[204] _The Golden Bough_, Part V; _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_,
1912, in the chapters: “Eating the God and Killing the Divine Animal.”
[205] Frazer, _Totem and Exogamy_, Vol. II, p. 590.
[206] I am not ignorant of the objections to this theory of sacrifice as
expressed by Marillier, Hubert, Mauss and others, but they have not
essentially impaired the theories of Robertson Smith.
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