Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics or Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a 1913 book by Sigmund Freud the founder of psychoanalysis in which the author applies his work to the fields of archaeology anthropology and the study of religion. It is a collection of four essays inspired by the work of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung and first published in the journal Imago (1912–13): The Horror of Inces