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Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins

In 1913 Totem and Taboo appeared as a book. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1913 Totem and Taboo appeared as a book. The instrument is that publication. The primal-horde narrative is not stored here as an archaeological find. Sigmund Freud's documented role is: He wrote the 1913 essays as a book. Anthropologists later disputed the primal-horde story. Medium confidence on ethnographic claim, high on publication.

Context

Civilization and its Discontents is a different book. The setting of Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins is the public file around 1913-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins. Naming Sigmund Freud does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1913-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Improving path from Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins on 1913-01-01. A public origins-and-group book is an education path of medium confidence on the ethnographic claim. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He wrote the 1913 essays as a book. Anthropologists later disputed the primal-horde story. Medium confidence on ethnographic claim, high on publication.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Totem and Taboo (book by Freud)Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Sigmund FreudInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Freud, Totem and Taboo neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/freud/ (opens in a new tab) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — Totem and Taboo (book by Freud), culture neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Totem-and-Taboo (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Freud, Totem and Taboo neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/freud/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Totem and Taboo (book by Freud), culture neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Totem-and-Taboo (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins under 1913-01-01 for Sigmund Freud. Established: a sourced public record of Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins under 1913-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One book. Mixed effects of Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSigmund Freud
  2. contributed toFactTotem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Totem and Taboo is published as a 1913 public book on group psychology and origins. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-totem-1913

https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-totem-1913

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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