In his thorough and thought-provoking presentation, Mario Rendon spoke of the relationship between ethnicity and psychoanalysis and how the psychohistory of culture has impacted that union over the centuries and continents. Upon defining the term culture, Rendon took his listeners on a journey spanning the contextual evolution of self-identity. Beginning with the relationship between animal and man, Rendon spoke of human culture as having originated in a natural context, with the destruction of the animal order bringing issues of fear, insecurity, and guilt to the fore, thereby laying the foundation for feelings of primal anxiety. In this context, human identity was made possible though the group totem, which served to minimize