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260 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1927
Applying to each society a terse, though somewhat crude formula, we might say that in the Oedipus complex there is the repressed desire to kill the father and marry the mother, while in the matrilineal society of the Trobriands the wish is to marry the sister and to kill the maternal uncle.
a social taboo does not derive its force from instinct, but [...] instead it always has to work against some innate impulse