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What this book knows
Unconscious libido, mythic symbolism, and the incest phantasy drive both individual neurosis and humanity's collective religious imagination.
desire
Consciously desire something very much and when obtained discover it in no wise satisfied — the gap between conscious thought and action.
VLA-782C3B1F-RC-021Functions or objects obtain sexual value which under normal circumstances have nothing to do with sexuality — libido like a stream that overflows into branches.
VLA-782C3B1F-RC-109This wish is quickly subjected to repression through the incest barrier, compared to the incest taboo found among inferior peoples.
VLA-782C3B1F-RC-013transformation
Resistance to incest prohibition makes phantasy inventive; libido becomes spiritualized — the power that always wishes evil thus creates a spiritual life.
VLA-782C3B1F-RC-178Man tries to sneak into rebirth through subterfuge in order to become a child again — the myth of return to the mother.
VLA-782C3B1F-RC-187faith-and-doubt
For enlightened people religiousness has approached very close to a neurosis; Christianity's barriers of repression hide our own sinfulness from us.
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