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pre-aniˈmistic, a.
[pre- B. 1.]
Applied to a stage of religious culture, presumed to precede animism, at which the power or spirit attributed to a material object was believed to exist in the object.
1900R. R. Marett in Folk-Lore XI. 162 (title) Preanimistic religion. Ibid. 170, I propose that we examine a few typical cases of Powers, which, beneath the animistic colour that..has more or less completely overlaid them, show traces of having once of their own right possessed pre-animistic validity as objects and occasions of man's religious feeling. 1918A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo (1919) iii. 152 Our psychoanalytic view here coincides with a theory of R. R. Marett, according to which animism is preceded by a pre-animistic stage. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xii. 175 Members of such very early, preanimistic types of society may be described as living in a state of original self-transcendence of consciousness. 1963S. Fuchs Origin of Man & his Culture xviii. 232 It was soon necessary to assume a pre-animistic stage of religion. |