- —Minnehaha, the mother—Hiawatha's introversion—Hiding
in the lap of nature really a return to the mother's womb—The
regression to the presexual revives the importance
of nutrition—The inner struggle with the mother, to overpower
and impregnate her—This fight against the longing
for the mother brings new strength—The Mondamin motive
in other myths—The Savior-hero the fruit of the entrance
of the libido into the personal maternal depths—This is
to die, and be born again—Hiawatha's struggle with the
fish-monster—A new deliverance from the mother—And
so again with Megissogwon, the Magician—The hero must
again and again conquer the mother—Then follows his
marriage with Minnehaha—Other incidents, his death: the
sinking of the sun in the west—Miss Miller also reminded
by Chiwantopel's longing of Wagner's Siegfried—Analysis
of the Siegfried myth—The treasure-guarding dragon—The
dragon the son's repressed longing for the mother—Symbolism
of the cave—The separation from the mother, the
hero's conquering of the dragon—The symbolism of the cup—Drinking
from the mother—Cup of the blood of Christ—The
resultant mysterious union of man—Profane interpretations
of this mystery—The phallic significance of the
serpent—The snake as representing the introverting libido—Self-procreation:
or creation of the world through introversion—The
world thus an emanation of the libido—The
hero himself a serpent—The psychoanalytic treatment of
regression—The hidden libido touched upon causes a struggle:
that is, the hero fights the fight with the treasure-guarding
dragon—The awakening of Brunhilda—Siegfried
finding his mother: a symbol of his own libido—The conquest
of the terrible mother brings the love and life-giving
mother.
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Miss Miller's vision again—The paradoxical striving
of the libido away from the mother toward the mother—The
destroying mother becomes beneficent on being conquered—Chiwantopel
a hero of words, not deeds—He has
not that will to live which breaks the magic circle of the
incestuous—His identification with the author, and her
wish for the parents—The end is the devouring of the
daughter's libido by the mother—Sexuality of the unconscious
merely a symbol—Idle dreaming the mother of the
fear of death—This downward path in the poetry of Hölderlin—The
estrangement from reality, the introversion
leading to death—The necessity of freeing libido for a
complete devotion to life—Otherwise bound by unconscious
compulsion: Fate—Sublimation through voluntary work—Creation
of the world through cosmic sacrifice—Man discovers
the world when he sacrifices the mother—The incest
barrier as the producer of thought—Budding sexuality
drawing the individual from the family—The mind dawns
at the moment the child begins to be free of the mother—*
