Myth and guilt - by Theodor Reik - PDF ebook

Myth and guilt

I already knew that I would devote my life to psychologic research, especially to the trail that Freud had blazed, and I passionately felt that "holy curiosity" of which Einstein often spoke. With the conceit of a young man, I daydreamed that I had discovered something valuable and imagined that it would have revolutionary effects in the field of comparative religion.

Author: Theodor Reik was a psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States.

Contents 

PART one: The Most Important Problem in the 

Evolution of Culture 1 

 I The Little Science Knows of Conscience 3 

II  Origin and Nature of Guilt Feeling 18 

III There Is a World Sense of Guilt 34 

IV Myths and Memories 46 

V Never Remembered, Yet Not Forgotten 59 

VI It Is Still a Mystery to Me 80 

PART two: The Crime 87 

VII The Interpretations 89 

VIII Text and Context 103 

IX Criminal Investigation 117 

X The Leading Clue 130 

XI The Fagade and the Inside Story 143 

XII Prehistoric Reality in the Myth 148 

XIII The Man Without a Past 156 

XIV, You Are Whom You Eat 168 

XV The Answers of Science and religion 181 

XVI The Breakthrough of Memories 190 

XVII The Emergence of Guilt-Feeling 207 

XVIII The Tension Before Christ 218 

PART three: The Punishment 

XIX Toward Repeat Performance 233 

XX The Christ-Myth and the Historic Christ 243 

XXI To Let the Punishment Fit the Crime 259 

XXII We Let Something Slip 269 

XXIII The Cross and the Tree 280 

XXIV Unconscious Meaning of Crucifixion 290 

XXV The First and the Second Adam 305 

XXVI The Sexual Re-interpretation 318 

PART four: Man, the Moral Climber 337 

XXVII The Apostle of the Gentiles 339 

XXVIII Dying Another Man's Death 350 

XXIX The Invisible God 362 

XXX The Splendid Isolation of the Jews 378 

XXXI How Odd of the Jews 391 

XXXII Hubris 399 

XXXIII Man, the Moral Climber 416 

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