Totem and taboo: expansions from the internet age

Abstract

This article aims to show the relevance of the Freudian text Totem and taboo (1913) to deal with problems surrounding the use of the internet for sexual abuse of children and adolescents, the issue of free access to pornography on the internet, including those of an incestuous nature, and the issue of pedophilia , problems so serious that they need to be thought about collectively. Secondly, the article addresses the conditions in which Freud's 1913 text emerged, in the construction of the centrality of the Oedipus complex (the father's incestuous desire and death wish), the affective ambivalence that sustains it, the moral law and the culpability which are its main effects, which are confirmed by anthropological investigation to which Freud intends to give a psychoanalytic foundation. In a third moment, it addresses the denial of the feminine by noting that the centrality of the myth of the murder of the primordial father in the psychoanalytic conceptual body comes from the fact that in it the woman is only the initial justification for its elaboration. In a fourth moment, it addresses the internet era in its emergence as a military instrument and its consequences in culture and thought.