Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52492#.VJodWcCAM4 Author(s) Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro , Luca Bussotti Affiliation(s) Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal . ABSTRACT Freud considered that, in the beginning, the idea of society resulted from the moral order imposed by a totemic ideal generated by feelings of guilt and remorse motivated by the parricide of the founder of the community. Since the substance of the process has persisted in reinventions of social identities throughout history, from this assumption the article interprets the foundations of the moral order in postcolonial African societies, whose origins dat...
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