ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the notion of individual and collective via transgression, then how ‘you shall not kill’ interacts with transgression and the group, before considering the variation in the account of transgression. Transgression means the guarantee of the creation of a social space. Transgression or the possibility of transgression becomes a point of view that affects the lifestyle and builds social stratification, interacting between individual and group. The myth of the primal horde, the totem and taboo, creates the story of the desire to transgress and of the law, of not to transgress. S. Freud in Totem and Taboo recognises that ‘the totemic system is, as we know, the basis of all the other social obligations and moral restrictions of the tribe’. As explained by Levi-Strauss, the structures of the society are symbolic, and in addition, ‘the social is constituted by relations of communication and symbolic exchange.’.
