Note 133 — Chapter VII · DEDUCTION OF ART-FORMS
Reading edition
Cf. the instances collected by Féré, Pathology of Emotions, pp. 360-390; and Godfernaux, Le sentiment et la pensée, pp. 65 sq. A powerful description of the mythogenic justifications by which anxiety creates to itself a reason is given in Maupassant’s poem “Terreur” in Des Vers, pp. 19, 20.