Diatkine remarks that the validity of the psychoanalytic approach to myths is brought into question as much by the Hellenists as by the analysts themselves. The main contrast in the two approaches is between the view of myths as a collective psychological elaboration and the view of the myth as a response to the social and historical necessities of the group or city in which it developed. Myths may belong to many different levels, in contrast to other psychological manifestations. No one today would be satisfied with a superficial formulation that myths and religions borrow their themes from infantile sexual theories and fantasies. For Diatkine, the interaction between the culture and the individual produces its effects from the first