ABSTRACT
The objective of the work is clear: to establish the basis of the social link from the psychoanalytic point of view. The psychoanalysis of the social link is thus the direct heir of Sigmund Freud's ambiguities on this subject: in neglecting, it reveals while at the same time obscuring. Psychoanalysis is going to have to reconsider this problem of time, of otherness, of change vis-a-vis the question of repetition, of the return to the identical and the society. Faithful to his model, Freud indeed establishes analogies between a series of social interdictions and the psychological mechanisms that one finds in the manifestations of the obsessional neurosis. The text puts a kind of final point at the end of Freud's period of theoreticai production directly linked with The Interpretation of Dreams. The great ambivalence shown by Freud with respect to Totem and Taboo attests to the emotional value that it most certainly held for its author.
