archaic heritage, n.Definitions

Archaic heritage (n.) comes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠with the individual at birth besides his own experience — fragments of the species' past.

The Archaic heritage (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what dreams sometimes bring up that the dreamer never lived: ancestral experience, echoed in legends and customs.

The Archaic heritage (n.) lets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a child fill gaps in individual truth with prehistoric truth, yet it is a methodological error to invoke it before ontogenetic explanations are exhausted.

The Archaic heritage (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠still extraordinarily vigorous in man's modes of functioning — a few thousand years of cultivation against several hundred thousand of savagery — so any function starved of libido sinks back to its archaic foundation.

Archaic heritage (n.) lies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠behind each person's childhood as the childhood of the race, and dreams and neuroses have preserved more mental antiquities than we could have imagined.