351 Ibid., p. 19.

352 Paul Valéry, Cahiers, Gallimard, Paris, vol. I, 1973, p. 313.

353 Ibid., p. 175.

354 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, W. W. Norton, New York, 1961, p. 11 (trans. James Strachey).

355 Ibid., p. 12.

356 Ibid., p. 53.

357 Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, in Collected Papers, Hogarth Press, London, 1925, vol. IV, pp. 389–90 (trans. James Strachey).

358 Ibid., p. 390.

359 Ibid., pp. 390–91.

360 Ibid., p. 391.

361 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, cit., p. 31.

362 Ibid., p. 15.

363 Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, cit., p. 369.

364 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, cit., p. 57.

365 Ibid.

366 Ibid., p. 32.

367 Ibid.

368 Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Hogarth Press, London, 1930, p. 40 (trans. James Strachey).

369 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, cit., p. 32.

370 Ibid., p. 33.

371 Ibid.

372 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gespräche mit Eckermann, in Werke, cit., vol. XXIV, 1966, p. 399.

373 Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Charles H. Kerr, New York, 1907, p. 12 (trans. Daniel De Leon).

374 Alexis de Tocqueville, Souvenirs, in Œuvres complètes, cit., vol. XII, 1964, p. 115.

375 Ibid., p. 139.

376 Ibid., p. 75.

377 Jacob Burckhardt, Historische Fragmente, cit., p. 205.

378 Gottfried Benn, Altern als Problem für Künstler, in Gesammelte Werke, Limes, Wiesbaden, vol. I, 1962, p. 577.

379 Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe, cit., vol. I, p. 182.

380 Ibid.

381 Ibid., p. 183.

382 Sigmund Freud, Entwurf einer Psychologie, in Sigmund Freud, Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse 1887–1902, S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 1975, p. 306.

383 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, cit., p. 3.

384 Ibid., p. 32.

385 Ibid.

386 Ibid., p. 54.

387 Ibid., p. 21.

388 Ibid.

389 Ibid.

390 Ibid.

391 Ibid.

392 Ibid.

393 Ibid., p. 23.

394 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Random House, New York, 1962, p. 17 (trans. Charles F. Atkinson).

395 Exodus 14:16.

396 Wisdom of Solomon 19:7–8.

397 Genesis 1:10.

398 Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Hogarth, London, 1933, pp. 79–80 (trans. James Strachey).

399 Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Naked Man, Harper & Row, New York, 1981, p. 688 (trans. John and Doreen Weightman).

400 Ibid., p. 668.

401 Ibid., p. 679.

402 Sigmund Freud, Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices, in Collected Papers, Hogarth Press, London, 1925, vol. II, pp. 26–27.

403 Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Naked Man, cit., p. 674.

404 Ibid., pp. 674–75.

405 Ibid., p. 680.

406 Ibid.

407 Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, University of Chicago Press, 1966, p. 223.

408 Ibid., p. 224.

409 Ibid., p. 227.

410 Ibid., pp. 227–28.

411 Ibid., p. 228.

412 Friedrich von Gentz, in Goethes Gespräche 1817–1832, cit., p. 38.

413 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Briefe 1814–1832, in Werke, cit., vol. XXI, 1965, p. 302.

414 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gespräche mit Eckermann, cit., p. 677.

415 Ernst Merian-Genast, in Goethes Gespräche 1817–1832, cit., pp. 39–40.

416 Boccaccio, Decameron, IV, 2.

417 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, vv. 59–60.