Mircea Eliade Quote

The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, among others, reconstituted and interpreted in Totem and Taboo. It would be impossible to ferret out a single example of slaying the father in primitive religions or mythologies. This myth was created by Freud. And what is more interesting: the intellectual élite accept it (is it because they understand it? Or because it is "true" for modern man?)

No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117.

The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, ...

The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, ...

The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, ...

The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, ...