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Then, in the later work,
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he is moving more towards metapsychology.
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Now he tries to explain the functioning of society,
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rather than just individual psyche.
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The first major step in this direction is 1913,
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when he published the book Totem and Taboo.
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And this is about the origins of a fairly primitive society--
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the transformation from a kinship network to a tribal, larger tribal society.
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And he explains in this book the origins of first complex society
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as the brothers come together and they kill their father.
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And the father exercised in the kinship relationship absolute power.
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And in fact he also believed that in these early kinship-based societies,