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The Myth of the Earth. dr. emil lorenz.
The Relation of Beating Phantasies to the Daydream. anna freud.
Remarks Concerning “Sublimation.” dr. siegfried bernfeld.
Origin of the Child Words Papa and Mama. dr. S. spielrein.
Psychology of Religion at the Parting of the Ways. dr. oskar pfister.
1. The Myth of the Earth. Lorenz studies cultural myth not from the usual standpoint of hero or nature mythology, but as a reflection of ideas. chiefly unconscious ones. He finds in Swinburne's Hertha from the Songs before Sunrise emphasis upon the principle of mother potency, which he contrasts with the praise of the father's creative power as sung, for example, in the ninetieth Psalm or with the mingling of the two interests as found in the hymn of Wisdom in the eighth chapter of Proverbs. Lorenz traces the predominance of feeling toward the mother potency as it ascribes importance to the earth and related objects, which represent various aspects of the mother power. He discovers a mythical development toward the opposite creative male element when the unconscious retrogressive tendency toward the mother has pushed itself, through the mythical symbol, too near to consciousness.
The author pursues his study by means of an interpretative concept which he calls the psychic integral. He means by this a constant factor upon which rests the psychic continuity that underlies individual, and accordingly cultural and psychological, development of the race. The psychic integral he believes to be the original undifferentiated union of mother and child, which therefore represents the complete mother potency, toward which the unconscious turns from all the vicissitudes of the individual adaptation to reality. It is this constant factor which makes it possible, as time goes on, to transfer the libido interest from the original