Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

Among the Australians the system of Totemism takes the place of all religious and social institutions.

TABOO is a Polynesian word, the translation of which provides difficulties for us because we no longer possess the idea which it connotes.

Animism in the narrower sense is the theory of psychic concepts, and in the wider sense, of spiritual beings in general.