The Panic of the Gods

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OGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
The Panic of the Oods
and otlier cmmaym
Edited with an Introduction by Werner IVIuensterberger
"The chief lesson Roheim brought home was that the origins and variants of human culture and differentiated individual character are inextricably intertwined. It soon became evident that the codes and values as transmitted to the young ones by their microculture, their mother, their father, their siblings, and the extended family modify personality development . . From all that has been said about R6heim's fundamental ideas we can see that in the broadest sense it is man's eternal infantilism which haunts all of us because the young child's impossible wants must be renounced but the unconscious never parts with them. . Even under the most propitious course of events no human infant can ever fully comprehend the discontinuity of symbiotic existence with his mother, and in order to make separation tolerable the natural strain of mental functioning seeks to safeguard... Tovább

Fülszöveg

OGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
The Panic of the Oods
and otlier cmmaym
Edited with an Introduction by Werner IVIuensterberger
"The chief lesson Roheim brought home was that the origins and variants of human culture and differentiated individual character are inextricably intertwined. It soon became evident that the codes and values as transmitted to the young ones by their microculture, their mother, their father, their siblings, and the extended family modify personality development . . From all that has been said about R6heim's fundamental ideas we can see that in the broadest sense it is man's eternal infantilism which haunts all of us because the young child's impossible wants must be renounced but the unconscious never parts with them. . Even under the most propitious course of events no human infant can ever fully comprehend the discontinuity of symbiotic existence with his mother, and in order to make separation tolerable the natural strain of mental functioning seeks to safeguard basic needs: imaginary beings become magic helpers. And so the world is divided into polarities of good and evil, heaven and hell, selfishness and self sacrifice. It is the child's vengeful rage from which mankind seeks rescue to be taken to utopia or to heaven, that hallucinatory, unambivalent, and instinct-free afterlife of interminable joy." —from the Introduction Vissza