For different reasons he choose to take the aborigines of the youngest continent: Australia. To show that this supposition is correct, Freud chooses to compare the psychology of primitive races with the psychology of the neurotic. In chapter 1, Freud explain the stage of development of the primitive man: the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind for us through our knowledge of his art, his religion and his attitude toward life, which we have received either directly or through the medium of legends, myth and fairy tales. The most common taboo seen today is a “No Smoking” sign in public places. Such animal associations with groups of individuals are comparable to totemism. People frequently discuss their astrological signs and comment that they are, for example, Leos (lions), Pisces (fish), or Aries (rams). Both terms have their modern counterparts. It was first recorded by explorer James Cook in 1771, when he found it used by the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific. Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.The term is of Polynesian origin. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times. Not completely in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity.
Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. “It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant.
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