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Quotation from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
“He who did this was the first epic poet; and the advance was achieved in his imagination”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Postscript, B, trans. James Strachey (1922)
In his speculative prehistory, Freud credits the poet who invented the heroic myth with the first escape of an individual from group psychology.
Citation: "He who did this was the first epic poet; and the advance was achieved in his imagination" — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Postscript, B, trans. James Strachey (1922). (id freud-group-psychology-q6)
