Chapter One l. Hocart, SO, p. 87. 2. Hocart, P�1, p. 1 33.
3. Mircea Eli a de, Cosmos and History
(
1\:ew York : Harper Torch books, 1959 ) , pp.
44 ff.4. Hocart, K, p. 201.
5. Claude Levi-Strauss, Stmctural Anthropology ( New York: Basic
Books
;
1 96
3), pp. 132 ff., and The Savage Mind (London:
Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1966 ) .
6.
J .
Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 1950 ( Boston : Beacon Press, 1 960 ) , p . 53.7. Hocart, KC, pp. 289-290.
8. Ibid., pp. 37, 290.
9.
J
ames, Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 1 19.10. Helmut Schoeck, Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior, 1
96
9 ( New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970 ) , p. 86.1 1 . Alan Harrington, The Immortalist ( New York: Random Bouse, 1969 ) , p . 1 15.
12. Erving Coffman, Interaction Ritual ( New York: Doubleday Anchor
Books, 1 9 67 ) ; The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life ( New York : Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959 ) .
13. Hocart
,
KC, pp. 285-286.14. Robert Hertz, Death and the Right Hand ( New York
: The Free
Press,
1960
) .15. Hocart, K, p. 198.
16. Rank, AA; see especially chaps. 5-10. See also G. Van der Leeuw, Religion in Essence and Manifestation
(
New York: Harper Torch books, 1963 ) , and Eliade, Cosmos and History.17. Hocart, SO, pp. 92 ff. 18. Ibid., p. 21 ; K, pp. 25, 152. 19. Hocart, K, pp. 190 ff. 20. Ibid., pp. 199 ff. 2 1 . Ibid., pp. 201-202, 224. 22. Hocart, PM, p. 133. 23. Hocart, K, p. 243.
24. Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind.
26. Hocart, KC, pp. 53-54.
27. Hocart, SO, p. 35.
Chapter Two I. Brown, LAD.
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173
2. Geza R6heim, Psychoanalysis and Anthropology ( New York: Inter- national Universities Press, 1969 ) .
3. Brown, LAD, p . 261.
4. !\farce! Mauss, The Gift ( Glencoe: The Free Press, 1954 ). 5. Brown, LAD, p. 271.
6. Van der Leeuw, Religion, vol. 2, chap. 50.
7. Ibid., p. 356.
8. Hocart, LGM, pp. 102-103.
9. Geza R6heim, "The Evolution of Culture," International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1934, 15 :401 .
10. Brown, LAD, p. 269. 1 1 . Ibid., p. 268. 12. Ibid.
13. Rank, WT, p. 87.
14. Cf. Paul Tillich's discussion of the "ambiguities of life" in Systematic Theology ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963 ) , vol. 3.
15. A.
J.
Levin, "The Fiction of the Death Instinct," Psychiatric Quar terly, 1951, 25: 269.1 6. Cf. H. H. Turney-High, Primitive War: Its Practice and Concepts
( Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 197 1 ) , pp. 196-204.
17. Levin, "The Fiction of the Death Instinct," p. 268, expanding
an
idea of J. C. Moloney's The Magic Cloak ( Wakefield,
Mass.: Mon
trose Press, 1949 ) , p. 213.18. Brown, LAD, pp. 265-266.
19. Ibid., p. 280.
20. Cf. Van der Leeuw, Religion, val. 2, pp. 463 ff.
21. Ibid., pp. 468-469. Chapter Three
l. Brown, LAD, p. 252.
2. Claude Levi-Strauss, A World on the Wane ( London: Hutchinson & Co., 1961 ) .
174
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The First and Second Discourses, 1755 ( New York: St. Martin's, 1964 ) , ed. R. D. Masters.
4. Brown, LAD, p. 242.
5. Rousseau, The First and Second Discourses, p. 141.
6. Ibid., p. 17 4. 7. Ibid., p. 149.
8. W. C. Lehman, Adam Ferguson and the Beginnings of Modem Sociology ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1930 ) , pp. 82 ff.
9. G. Landtmann, Origin of
the Inequality
oft
he Social Cklsses ( Chi- cago : University of Chicago Press, 1938 ) , chap. 3.10. Ibid., p. 54.
11. Ibid., pp. 55 ff.
12. Morton H. Fried, The
Evolution of
Political Society ( New York: Random House, 1967 ) , especially pp. 182 ff.1 3 . Rank, ME, p. 13. 14. Rank, BP, p. 103.
15. Robert H. Lowie, Lowie's Selected Papers in Anthropology ( Berke ley: University of California Press, 1960 ) , in Cora Du Bois, ed.,
pp. 279 ff.
16. Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan, 1651
( New
York: Liberal Arts, 1958 ) , chap. I I .17. Cf. M. Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques o f Ecstasy (New York: Pantheon, 1964 ) .
18. P. Radin, The World o
f
Primitive Man ( New York: Grove Press, 1960 ) , p. 140.19. Ibid., chap. 7. 20. Ibid.
21. Lehman, Adam Ferguson and the Beginnings of Modern Sociology,
pp. 1 1 3 ff.
22. Brown, LAD, pp. 251-252.
23. Ibid., p. 252.
24. G. Lenski, Power and Privilege ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966 ) ,
p . 105.
Chapter Four
1.
Rad
in, The World of Primitive Man, pp. 213 ff.3. Hocart, KC, p. 138.
4.
Ibid., p. 134.5.
Ibid., pp.1 34,
206. 6. Ho::art, K, p. 209.7.
Ibid., p. 41. 8. Ibid., p.45.
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10. Hocart, KC, p. 203. 1 1 . Ibid., p.
154.
12. Ibid., p.
139.
13.
Ibid., p. 153.14. Robert H. Lowie, "Some Aspects of Political Organization amon6 the American Aborigines," in Cora Du Bois, ed., Lowie's Selected Papers in Anthropology ( Berkeley : University of California Press, 1960) , chap. 2 1 ; Radin, The World of Primitive Man, pp. 214-215.
15.
Fried, The Evolution of Political Society, p.180.
16.
Cf. R6heim, "The Evolution of Culture," p. 402.1 7.
Hocart, PM, p. 237
.Chapter Five
l. Karl Lamprecht, What Is History? ( New York: Macmillan, 1905) ,
p. 29.
2. Rank, PS, p.
87.
3. Brown, LAD, p. 285.4. Rank, PS, p. 18.
5. Ibid., p. 38; cf. Emile Durkheim, Incest: The Nature and Origin of the Taboo, 1897 ( New York: Lyle Stuart, 1963 ) , p. 109.
6. Cf. F. M. Cornford, From Religion to Philosophy, 1912 ( New York:
Harper Torchbooks, 1957 ) , p. 109.
7. Rank, BP, p. 126. 8. Ibid., p. 125.
9. A. Moret and G. Davy, From Clan to Empire ( New York: Knopf,
1926 ) , p. 360.
10. Cf. "Religion, Magic and Morale," in Douglas G. Haring, ed., Japan's
Prospect ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1946 ) , chap. 7.
12. Ibid., p. 135. 13. Ibid., p. 128. 14. Ibid., p. 127. 15. Ibid., p. 128. Chapter Six 1. Brown, LAD, pp. 127-128. 2. Ibid., p. 248. 3. Ibid., p. 283. 4. Ibid., p. 286. 5. I
bid
., pp. 279, 281, 283.6. Mary Douglas,
P
urity and Danger: An Analysisof Concepts of
Pol lution andTaboo
( British Penguin Books, 1966 ) , pp. 85-86. 7. Brown, LAD, p. 247.8. Cf. Landtmann, Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes, pp.
60-61 .
9 . G. E. Smith, Human History ( New York, 1929 ) , a s quoted in S. A.
Coblentz, Avarice: A
History
( Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1965 ) , p. 24.10. Hocart, LGM, p. 99.
11. Brown, LAD, p. 247.
12. Hocart, LGM, p. 101.
13. R6heim, "The Evolution of Culture," p. 402.
14. Hocart, LGM, p. 103.
15. 0. Spengler, The Decline
of the
West ( New York: Knopf, 1939, one-volume edition ) , p. 489.16. Brown, LAD, pp. 246, 248. 17. Ibid., p. 251.
18. Ibid., p. 295.
19. Ibid., FP· 289-293.
20. P. Tempels, Bantu
Philosophy
( Paris: Presence Africaine, 1959 ) ,p . 1 18.
21. Rank, BP, p. 128.
22. Brown, LAD, p. 215.
23. On the symbolic role of money in recent American life, see Hugh Duncan's excellent little chapter "Money as a Form of Transcendence
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24. Ibid., p. 278. 25. Ibid., p. 279.
26. G. Heard, The Ascent
of
Humanity: An Essay on the Evolution ofCivilization from Group Consciousness through Individuality to
Super-Consciousness ( London : Jonathan Cape, 1929 ) , p. 71, note 5.
27. Brown, LAD, p. 272. 28. Ibid., pp. 280, 283.
Chapter Seven
1. Rank, BP, pp. 58-59.
2. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933 ( New York: Farrar, Straus, 1970 ) , pp. 334 ff.
3. Ibid., p. 339.
4. Erich N�umann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic ( London: Hod
der & Stoughton, 1969 ) , p. 40.
5. Carl Jung, "After the Catastrophe," Collected Works, vol. 10 (Prince-
ton, N.J. : Bollingen, 1970 ) , p. 203. 6. Ibid.
7. Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, p. 50. 8. Jung, "After the Catastrophe," p. 216.
Chapter Eight
1. Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power ( London: Gollancz, 1962 ) , p. 448. 2. J. J. Rousseau, "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of In equality among Men," in The First and Second Discourses, 1755
( New York: St. Martin's, 1964 ) , ed. R. D. Masters, p. 161. 3. Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human
Development ( New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966) . 4. Ibid., p. 226.
5. Ibid., pp. 220-221.
6. Ibid., pp. 5 8 , 1 16, 218, 226 ff. 7. Ibid., pp. 149-150, 308.
8. Cf., for example, Georges Gusdorf, L'Experience humaine du sacri
Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy ( Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1963 ) ; H. Hubert and M. Mauss, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function, 1898 ( Chicago: Uni versity of Chicago Press, 1964 ) ; Van der Leeuw, Religion, vol. 2, chap. 50.
9. Mumford, The Myth of the Machine, pp. 185-186.
10. See H. Marcuse, "The Ideology of Death, in H. Feifel, ed., The Meaning of Death ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965 ) , p. 75, for a
similar, powerful observation. .
1 1 . This is from Hubert and Mauss, Sacrifice, and Van der Leeuw, Religion, vol. 2, p. 356.
12. Leo Alexander, "Sociopsychologic Structure of the SS," Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1948, 59: 626.
13. Cf. Turney-High, P·rimitive War, pp. 189 ff. This is at odds with
Mumford's hypothesis in Myth of the Machine, p. 218.
14. Cf. Canetti, Crowds and Power, pp. 139-140.
15. J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens ( Boston : Beacon Press, 1955 ) , p. 9 1 .
16. Canetti, Crowds and Power, p. 228. 17. Ibid., p. 230.
18. Cf. G. Landtmann, Origin of the Inequality of Social Classes, pp. 42 ff.
19. Vancouver Sun, British Columbia, Canada, Oct. 15, 1971.
20. Rank, WT, p. 130.
21. Freud, "Thought for ·the Times on War and Death" and "Why War?" Collected Papers, 1932 ( New York: Basic Books, 1959 ) , vols. 4 and 5.
22. Freud, "Thought for the Times on War and Death," vol. 4, p. 314.
23. Harrington, The Immortalist, p. 49.
24. Cf. Canetti's interesting insight on Domitian's way of experiencing the very process of survival in Crowds and Power, p. 234.
25. Ibid., pp. 1 38-140.
26. Rank, PS, pp. 73-74; my emphasis.
27.
J.
Scher, "Death : The Giver of Life," in H. M. Ruitenbeek, ed.,Death: Interpretations ( New York: Delta Books, 1969 ) , pp. 103-104.
28. G. Zilboorg, "Fear of Death," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1943, 12:472. 29. Rank, BP, pp. 40-4 1.