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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 recognise death as a fact. Marett, Pre-animistic religion, Folklore, XI.

Sigmund Freud - Animismus, Magie und Allmacht der Gedanken: Über einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden: und der Neurotiker III

»There is nothing vague or mystical about it, nothing of that metaphysical haze which some writers love to conjure up over the humble beginnings of human speculation but which is utterly foreign to the simple, sensuous, and concrete modes of the savage« (Totemism and Exogamy, I, p.

Sigmund Freud - Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker

There is nothing vague or mystical about it, nothing of that metaphysical haze which some writers love to conjure up over the humble beginnings of human speculation but which is utterly foreign to the simple, sensuous, and concrete modes of the savage (Totemism and Exogamy, I., p.

Sigmund Freud - Die infantile Wiederkehr des Totemismus: Über einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden: und der Neurotiker IV