(From the Edda, tr. (into Ger.) by H. Gering, p. 53; Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Jahrgang XII, 1902, p. 167.)
Here, too, belong all the miraculous stories of cosmic events, phenomena occurring at the birth and death of heroes. (The Star of Bethlehem; earthquakes, the rending asunder of the temple hangings, etc., at the death of Christ.) The omnipotence of God is the manifest omnipotence of the libido, the only actual doer of wonders which we know. The symptom described by Freud, as the “omnipotence of thought” in Compulsion Neuroses arises from the “sexualizing” of the intellect. The historical parallel for this is the magical omnipotence of the mystic, attained by introversion. The “omnipotence of thought” corresponds to the identification with God of the paranoic, arrived at similarly through introversion.
[192]. Comparable to the mythological heroes who after their greatest deeds fall into spiritual confusion.
[193]. Here I must refer you to the blasphemous piety of Zinzendorf, which has been made accessible to us by the noteworthy investigation of Pfister.
[194]. Anah is really the beloved of Japhet, the son of Noah. She leaves him because of the angel.
[195]. The one invoked is really a star. Compare Miss Miller’s poem.
[196]. Really an attribute of the wandering sun.
[197]. Compare Miss Miller’s poem.
“My poor life is gone,
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