C’est en 1974 que l'historien du droit Pierre Legendre publie l’Amour du Censeur, ouvrage dans lequel il propose une herméneutique originale du droit et des institutions, fondée sur l’histoire et la psychanalyse, qu'il nomme l’anthropologie dogmatique. On trouvera ici une interprétation de cette anthropologie dogmatique, qui est au cœur de l'œuvre de Pierre Legendre. Elle tient le droit et les institutions du monde occidental comme un ordre de type totémique, à la manière des sociétés supposées primitives.It’s in 1974 that the historian of law Pierre Legendre publishes The Love of the Censor, a work in which he proposes an original body of hermeneutics of law and institutions, based on history and psychoanalysis, that he names dogmatic anthropology. One will find here an interpretation of this dogmatic anthropology, which is in the heart of Pierre Legendre’s work. It considers law and the institutions of the western world as an order of a totemic kind, in the way of societies supposed to be primitive. / It’s in 1974 that the historian of law Pierre Legendre publishes The Love of the Censor, a work in which he proposes an original body of hermeneutics of law and institutions, based on history and psychoanalysis, that he names dogmaticanthropology. One will find here an interpretation of this dogmatic anthropology, which is in the heart of Pierre Legendre’s work. It considers law and the institutions of the western world as an order of a totemic kind, in the way of societies supposed to be primitive.