[108] Compare the article _Magic_ (N. T. W.), in the _Encyclopedia
Britannica_, 11th Ed.
[109] _l.c._, p. 54.
[110] Formulation of two principles of psychic activity, _Jahrb. für
Psychoanalyt. Forschungen_, Vol. III, 1912, p. 2.
[111] The King in _Hamlet_ (Act III, Scene 4):
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
[112] Compare Chapter II.
[113] Remarks upon a case of Compulsion Neurosis, _Jahrb. für
Psychoanalyt. und Psychopath. Forschungen_, Vol. I, 1909.
[114] We seem to attribute the character of the ‘uncanny’ to all such
impressions which seek to confirm the omnipotence of thought and the
animistic method of thought in general, though our judgment has long
rejected it.
[115] The following discussions will yield a further motive for this
displacement upon a trivial action.
[116] _Monograph Series_, 1916.
[117] It is almost an axiom with writers on this subject that a sort of
‘Solipsism or Berkleianism’ (as Professor Sully terms it as he finds it
in the child) operates in the savage to make him refuse to recognize
death as a fact.--Marett, _Pre-animistic Religion, Folklore_, Vol. XI,
1900, p. 178.
[118] We merely wish to indicate here that the original narcism of the
child is decisive for the interpretation of its character development
and that it precludes the assumption of a primitive feeling of
inferiority for the child.
[119] S. Reinach, _L’Art et la Magie_, in the collection _Cultes, Mythes
et Religions_, Vol. I, pp. 125-136. Reinach thinks that the primitive
artists who have left us the scratched or painted animal pictures in the
caves of France did not want to ‘arouse’ pleasure, but to ‘conjure
things’. He explains this by showing that these drawings are in the
darkest and most inaccessible part of the caves and that representations
of feared beasts of prey are absent. “Les modernes parlent souvent, par
hyperbole, de la magie du pinceau ou du ciseau d’un grand artiste et, en
général, de la magie de l’art. Entendu en sense propre, qui est celui
d’une constrainte mystique exercée par la volonté de l’homme sur
d’autres volontés ou sur les choses, cette expression n’est plus
admissible; mais nous avons vu qu’elle était autrefois rigouresement,
vraie, du moins dans l’opinion des artistes” (p. 136).
[120] Recognized through so-called endopsychic perceptions.
[121] R. R. Marett, _Pre-animistic Religion, Folklore_, Vol. XI, No. 2,
1900.--Comp. Wundt, _Myth and Religion_, Vol. II, p. 171.
[122] We assume that in this early narcistic stage feelings from
libidinous and other sources of excitement are perhaps still
indistinguishably combined with each other.
[123] Schreber, _Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken_, 1903.--Freud,
Psychoanalytic Observations concerning an autobiographically described
case of Paranoia, _Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyt. Forsch._ Vol. III, 1911.
[124] Compare the latest communication about the Schreber case, p. 59.
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