NOTES
PART I
INTRODUCTION
1 He is said to have killed himself when he heard that she whom he so passionately adored was his mother.
2 "Wish Fulfilment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales." Tr. by W. A. White, M.D.
3 "Dream and Myth." Deuticke, Wien 1909.
4 "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero."
5 "Die Symbolik in den Legenden, Märchen, Gebräuchen und Träumen." Psychiatrisch.–Neurologische Wochenschrift, X. Jahrgang.
6 "On the Nightmare." Amer. Journ. of Insanity, 1910.
7 Jahrbuch, 1910, Pt. II.
8 "Die Frömmigkeit des Grafen Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Ein psychoanalytischer Beitrag zur Kenntnis der religiösen Sublimationprozesse und zur Erklärung des Pietismus." Deuticke, Wien 1910. We have a suggestive hint in Freud's work, "Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci." Deuticke, Wien 1910.
9 Compare Rank in Jahrbuch, Pt. II, p. 465.
CHAPTER I
1 Compare Liepmann, "Über Ideenflucht," Halle 1904; also Jung, "Diagnost. Assoc. Stud.," p. 103: "Denken als Unterordnung unter eine herrschende Vorstellung"; compare Ebbinghaus, "Kultur der Gegenwart," p. 221. Külpe ("Gr. d. Psychologie," p. 464) expresses himself in a similar manner: "In thinking it is a question of an anticipatory apperception which sometimes governs a greater, sometimes a smaller circle of individual reproductions, and is differentiated from accidental motives of reproduction only by the consequence with which all things outside this circle are held back or repressed."
2 In his "Psychologia empirica meth. scientif. pertract.," etc., 1732, p. 23, Christian Wolff says simply and precisely: "Cogitatio est actus animae quo sibi rerumque aliarum extra se conscia est."
3 The moment of adaptation is emphasized especially by William James in his definition of reasoning: "Let us make this ability to deal with novel data the technical differentia of reasoning. This will sufficiently mark it out from common associative thinking, and will immediately enable us to say just what peculiarity it contains."
4 Thoughts are shadows of our experiences, always darker, emptier,
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