After being the subject of many studies up until 1914 totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud's work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Levi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion althou |The Vicissitudes of Totemism One Hundred Years After Totem and Taboo | Mental Health
