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  • He seeks to win the world, and leave the mother—Childish

regression to the presexual brings archaic phantasies—The
incest problem not physical, but psychological—Sacrifice of
of the horse: sacrifice of the animal nature—The sacrifice
of the "mother libido": of the son to the mother—Superiority
of Christian symbol: the sacrifice, not only of
lower nature, but the whole personality—Miss Miller's
phantasy passes from sacrifice of the sexual, to sacrifice of
the infantile personality—Problem of psychoanalysis, expressed
mythologically, the sacrifice and rebirth of the
infantile hero—The libido wills the destruction of its
creation: horse and serpent—The end of the hero by means
of earthquake—The one who understands him is the
mother.