Wolfgang Paalen was an artist an theorist of the avant-garde who devoted his life to the belief that the totemic object and the junction of art and science could reveal the untapped energy of the possible.
Because we are not governed by people but by ideas, along with the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan , the anthropologist Emile Durkheim, and the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, shape the theoretical body of Totem Taboo.