the sex act and reproduction, fecundity, he had begun the macrocosmization

of the world-that is, the elaborated picture of life, first magically stated,

later metaphysically put, wherebu he explained his extistence; a projection, in other words, of his self-study, his body feeling and knowledge, into the universe. The great irrational fear .. one might say crystallized in this [primal] man into the more concrete and tangible one of fear of death.

The conception of the soul takes its stance hrere in the iea that something which was part of the body, very real, visible, etc. that lived on perpetually and contained in itslef the seed of future rebirths, reincrnations,etc. And here art takes its rise, art being nothing more originally than the endeavor to make concrete that abstract idea of a soul; and that concretization proceeds by means, naturally, of platic representation."