Note 25 — Chapter IV · THE FAMILY AND THE LIFE TASK OF THE INDIVIDUAL
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As Silberer points out, students of mythology had already shown the possibility of still a third interpretation, the "naturalistic" one, according to which the representations of the incest motive in myth and legend may be taken as a symbolic portrayal of certain important and impressive natural occurrences—the sequence of day and night, summer and winter etc.