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" "Căci ăsta mi se pare lucrul cel mai greu de învăţat în contemplarea iubitei: să ştii cum să-i priveşti ochii. Uneori, privirile noastre lovesc atât de nepriceput oglinda ochilor iubitei, încât o turbură, aburind-o; sau, şi mai grav, fac ochii opaci, le dă un luciu de teracotă, de smalţ colorat. Şi sunt, de asemenea, priviri crâncene, care smulg retina sau o pătrund sălbatic, sângerând-o, sau o întunecă...
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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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?)