COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE An outline of the situation of totemism in anthropology in the years following the First World War -- CHAPTER TWO From the 1920s to the Second World War -- CHAPTER THREE Returning to the circumstances ofthe publication and translation of Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER FOUR Totemism and anthropology after the Second World War -- CHAPTER FIVE Psychoanalytic interpretation: with and without the patient -- CHAPTER SIX The misfortunes of ambition -- CHAPTER SEVEN The evolution of practices -- CHAPTER EIGHT Beyond nature and culture -- CHAPTER NINE The new possibility of discussions on the principle axes of Freud's thought in Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER TEN Totem and Taboo, politics, and law -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Totemic systems and totalitarianisms: the point of view of Totem and Taboo -- CHAPTER TWELVE The price of murderous consent? -- APPENDIX Summary of the main lines of Freud's essay -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.