Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' (1914) proposes that the incest taboo originated when the primal horde killed the primal father and then felt guilty, establishing the taboo as a reaction to this primal murder; this has no empirical reality and is as implausible as Santa Claus, making it the most poetic and least scientific part of Freud's work
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“this has as much empirical reality as santa claus there's no such thing as the primal horde there's this thing is as the primal family this is this thing is the primal incest taboo none of these things happened”
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