Totemic religion arose from the filial sense of guilt, in an attempt to allay that feeling and to appease the father by deferred obedience to him. All later religions are seen to be attempts at solving the same problem. & #8230; all have the same end in view and are reactions to the same great event with which civilization began and which since it occurred, has not allowed mankind a moment's rest. (Freud 145) Furthermore, while it would seem that human beings would always seek out pleasure and avoid pain, even Freud discovered that this was not always the case. The events of the World Wars made Freud feel that there may be something else going on as well.

Freud's revisions to his theory were therefore partly carried out so that the fact that early twentieth-century history in Europe failed to follow the smooth pursuit of...

Some are frowned on by society and others not so much. In any even, Freud certainly has some insight into the origins of conformity and obedience that cannot be ignored in the long evolutionary scheme of human behavior.
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Bocock, Robert. Sigmund Freud. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Freud, Totem and Taboo (1912-13), Standard Edition, Volume 13, Hogarth Press, London (1950.

Moser, Ellen. "Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis, Personality Theories, and the Unconscious." Sigmund Freud Great Neck Publishing.