Keith Hendricks

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Even if we insist upon the essential similarity between taboo and moral prohibitions we do not dispute that a psychological difference must exist between them. A change in the relations of the fundamental ambivalence can be the only reason why the prohibition no longer appears in the form of a taboo.
Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
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