MYTHOLOGY
by THEODOR REIK, Vienna.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The recent advances in myth and legend investigation owe much
to the work of Dr. Rank. In his collected essays on this subject (7),
a definite point of view can be traced gaining cleaniess and promi-
nence as the enquiry deepens and the more important questions
emerge. Proof has already been forthcoming of the value of the
comparison of literary creations, myth forms and the phenomena of
folk-psychology, instituted in the earlier contributions, notably in
the Doppelganger : it was this very comparison that made possible
a disengaging of a motif from personal and individual aspects and
by means of juxtaposition and through a study of likenesses and
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