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Table of Contents
Introduction.—Problems and Methods
§ 1. Method of tests, pure observation and the clinical method.
§ 2. The five types of reaction revealed by clinical examination.
§ 3. Rules and criteria for the diagnosis of the preceding types of reaction.
§ 4. Rules for the interpretation of the results.
Part I.—Realism
Chapter I.—The Notion of Thought
§ 1. The first stage : thinking is with the mouth.
§ 2. Looking and seeing.
§ 3. The second and third stages : thinking is with the head.
§ 4. Words and things.
Chapter II.—Nominal Realism
§ 1. The origin of names.
§ 2. The place of names.
§ 3. The intrinsic value of names.
§ 4. Conclusions.
Chapter III.—Dreams
§ 1. The first stage : the dream comes from outside and remains external.
§ 2. The second stage : the dream arises in us ourselves, but is external to us.
§ 3. The third stage : the dream is internal and of internal origin.
§ 4. Conclusions.
Chapter IV.—Realism and the Origin of the Idea of Participation
§ 1. Realism and the consciousness of self.
§ 2. Participation and magical practices.
§ 3. The origins of participation and magic as manifested in the child.
§ 4. Corroborative proof : spontaneous magical ideas in the adult.
§ 5. Conclusion : logical and ontological egocentricity.
Part II.—Animism
Chapter V.—Consciousness Attributed to Things
§ 1. The first stage : all things are conscious.
§ 2. The second stage : things that can move are conscious.
§ 3. The third stage : things that can move of their own accord are conscious.
§ 4. The fourth stage : consciousness is restricted to animals.
§ 5. Conclusions.
Chapter VI.—The Concept of “Life”
§ 1. The first stage : life is assimilated to activity in general.
§ 2. The second stage : life is assimilated to movement.
§ 3. The third and fourth stages : life is assimilated to spontaneous movement, then later is restricted to animals and plants.
§ 4. Conclusion : the notion of “life,”.
Chapter VII.—The Origins of Child Animism, Moral Necessity and Physical Determinism
§ 1. The child’s spontaneous animism.
§ 2. The sun and moon follow us.
§ 3. Physical determinism and moral necessity.
§ 4. Conclusions. The significance of the questions on child animism, and the nature of “diffuse animism,”
§ 5. Conclusions (continued) : the origins of child animism.
Part III.—Artificialism
Chapter VIII.—The Origin of the Sun and Moon
§ 1. A primitive example of the first stage.
§ 2. The first stage : the sun and moon are made artificially.
§ 3. The second and the third stages : the origin of the sun and moon is first partly, then completely, natural.
§ 4. The quarters of the moon.
Chapter IX.—Meteorology and the Origin of Water
§ 1. The sky.
§ 2. The cause and the nature of night.
§ 3. The origin of the clouds.
§ 4. Thunder and lightning.
§ 5. The formation of rain.
§ 6. The explanations of snow, ice and cold.
§ 7. Rivers, lakes and sea, the primitive origin of water.
Chapter X.—The Origin of Trees, Mountains and of the Earth
§ 1. The origin of wood and of plants.
§ 2. The origin of iron, glass, cloth, and of paper.
§ 3. The origin of stones and of earth.
§ 4. Origin of the mountains.
Chapter XI.—The Meaning and Origins of Child Artificialism
§ 1. The meaning of child artificialism.
§ 2. The relations of artificialism with the problem of the birth of babies.
§ 3. The stages of spontaneous artificialism and their relation with the development of animism.
§ 4. The origins of artificialism.
§ 5. The origins of identification and the causes of the decline of artificialism and animism.
Appendix.—Note on the Relations between Belief in Efficacy and Magic, in Connection with §§ 2 and 3 of Chapter IV
Index of Names
General Index
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