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... religion . As Otto Rank put it , all religion springs , in the last analysis , “ not so much from . . . fear of natural death as of final destruction . ” But it is culture itself that embodies the transcendence of death in some form or ...
... religion . As Otto Rank put it , all religion springs , in the last analysis , “ not so much from . . . fear of natural death as of final destruction . ” But it is culture itself that embodies the transcendence of death in some form or ...
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... religion and magic , no matter how many books are written to support the distinction . As Hocart pointed out so succinctly , magic is religion we don't believe in , and religion is magic we believe in . Voilà tout . What Huizinga did in ...
... religion and magic , no matter how many books are written to support the distinction . As Hocart pointed out so succinctly , magic is religion we don't believe in , and religion is magic we believe in . Voilà tout . What Huizinga did in ...
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... religion and psychoanalysis show man his basic creatureliness and attempt to pull the scales of his sublimations from his eyes . Both religion and psychoanalysis have discovered the same source of illusion : the fear of death which ...
... religion and psychoanalysis show man his basic creatureliness and attempt to pull the scales of his sublimations from his eyes . Both religion and psychoanalysis have discovered the same source of illusion : the fear of death which ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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