[37]. “Der Künstler, Ansätze zu einer Sexualpsychologie,” 1907, p. 36.
[38]. Compare also Rank’s later book, “The Myth of the Birth of the Hero.”
[39]. “Wish Fulfilment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales,” 1908.
[40]. “Dreams and Myths.”
[41]. Compare with this “Konflikte der kindlichen Seele,” p. 6, foot.
[42]. Compare Abraham, “Dreams and Myths.” New York 1913. The wish for the future is represented as already fulfilled in the past. Later, the childish phantasy is again taken up regressively in order to compensate for the disillusionment of actual life.
[43]. Rank: “The Myth of the Birth of the Hero.”
[44]. Naturally, it could not be said that because this was an institution in antiquity, the same would recur in our phantasy, but rather that in antiquity it was possible for the phantasy so generally present to become an institution. This may be concluded from the peculiar activity of the mind of antiquity.
[45]. The Dioscuri married the Leucippides by theft, an act which, according to the ideas of higher antiquity, belonged to the necessary customs of marriage (Preller: “Griechische Mythologie,” 1854, Pt. II, p. 68).
[46]. See S. Creuzer: “Symbolik und Mythologie,” 1811, Pt. III, p. 245.