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Critical Remarks on the Concept of the Mystical Mentality, as Well as on Lucien Lévy-Bruhl’s Law of Participation

Ideas and Ideals June 25, 2026 M. Rushenko

It is generally accepted that Lucien Levy-Bruhl not only developed James Frazer’s idea of two laws of sympathetic magic by combining them into the law of participation, but also, in opposition to the evolutionary anthropological concept of phylogenetic intellectual development, formulated a sociological concept of a collective drive to seek animistic causality (mystical mentality), which...