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February 14, 2026
Slavoj Žižek in Danas text about his mention in Epstein's files, Chomsky's refusal to talk to him, and 'no state without a deep state'
This idea developed in his work 'Totem and Taboo' is usually met with ridicule – and rightly so, if we take it as a realistic anthropological hypothesis claiming that in the dawn of humanity, 'ape-men' lived in groups dominated by an omnipotent father who kept all the women for his exclusive sexual (mis)use, and that after the sons gathered and rebelled, killing the father, the dead father returned to haunt them as a totemic figure of symbolic authority, causing guilt and imposing the incest taboo.
TL;DR
- Žižek's theory in 'Totem and Taboo' is often met with ridicule.
- The hypothesis suggests early 'ape-men' lived in groups led by a dominant father.
- This father figure reserved all women for himself.
- Sons eventually rebelled, killed the father, and he returned as a totemic figure.
- This totemic figure induced guilt and established the incest taboo.
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