According
to Farmer this story is insprired by Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo,
in which book Freud tries to explain the origins of totemism and
exogamy in ancient preliterate societies. Farmer: «Those who
have
read his work and will read my story will see that the story
has
nothing to do with Freud's thesis. Or does it?»
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How
to make the decision if your partner is the right one for you? Consult
your totem of course. A funny story, the first of Farmer's Polytropical
Paramyths and called by him a pre-Polytropical Paramyth.
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in The Magazine
of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Anthony Boucher
New York, NY: Fantasy House, Inc.
Volume 7, No. 6, Whole No. 43
magazine (19,5×14cm)
December 1954
128
$ 0.36
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in The New York Post
James Wechsler
New York, NY: Dorothy Schiff
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Sunday, April 17, 1955
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in The
Celestial
Blueprint
New York, NY: Ace Books
F-165
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-/1962
114
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in The
Book of Philip
José Farmer
New York, NY: DAW Books
UQ1063 / No. 63
SBN 451-UQ1063-095
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Jack Gaughan
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in The
Grand Adventure
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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11/1984
xvii + 327
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in The
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in The
Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection
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in The
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José Farmer
West Yorkshire: The Elmfield Press
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239
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Josh Kirby
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French: "Totem et tabou"
in Fiction
Alain Doremieux
Paris: Opta
No. 115
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June 1963
176
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French: "Totem et tabou"
in Philip
José Farmer
Jacques Chambon
Paris: Presses Pocket
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction, no. 5066
ISBN 2-266-00844-7
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01/1980
411
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French: "Totem et tabou"
in Philip
José Farmer
Jacques Chambon
Paris: Presses Pocket
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction, no. 5066
ISBN 2-266-00844-7
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French: "Totem et tabou"
in Le
jeu de la création
Jacques Chambon
Paris: Presses Pocket
Le grand temple de la sience-fiction, no. 5066
ISBN 2-266-03657-2
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09/1990
415
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German: "Das Totem-Tier"
in Utopia (Jupiter im Zenit)
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Nr. 405
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10/1964
64
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German: "Totem und Tabu"
in Der
Dienstagsmensch
René Oth
Darmstadt: Luchterhand
Sammlung Luchterhand, SL 516
ISBN 3-472-61516-8
paperback (18×11,5cm)
08/1984
212
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Olga Rinne
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German: "Totem und Tabu"
in Weltraum
Aventüren
Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Lübbe
Science Fiction Special, Band 24 088
ISBN 3-404-24088-X
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350
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Michael W. Kaluta
The story is introduced
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Hungarian: "Totem
és tabu"
in Galaktika
István Burger
Budapest: Metropolis Media Group Kft.
Volume XXXVI, No. 307
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October 2015
114
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István Burger
Budapest: Metropolis Media Group Kft.
Volume XXXVI, No. 307XL
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Italian: "Totem e
tabù"
in Gamma
Valentino De Carlo
Milan: Edizioni dello Scorpione
Number 6 (Volume 3 No. 2)
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April 1966
160
L 400
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Italian: "Totem e
tabù"
in La
grande avventura
Milan: Rizzoli
Mistral
ISBN 88-17-69506-8
trade paperback (22×14cm)
09/1989
313
L 19.000
Andrea Terzi
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The story is introduced
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Michael
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Russian: "Тотем и табу"
"Totem i tabu"
in Миры
Филипа Фармера - T. 15
in Miry Filipa Farmera -
T. 15
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
03/1997
400
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Spanish: "Totem y
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in Planeta Prohibido
Barcelona: Vértice
Galaxia 63
no ISBN
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not dated [= -/1967]
224
50 Ptas
Fernando M. Sesén
Enrich
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Planet), by John E. Muller, two stories by Henry Kuttner
& C.L. Moore, and this story by Farmer.
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