Practice question · Put in order
Order the steps of Frazer’s imitative-magic logic, as an analyst would reconstruct it.
- Select a target to affect
- Expect the act to transfer to the target by resemblance
- Act on the likeness
- Craft a likeness of the target
Hints
- The logic runs from resemblance to identification to effect.
- Acting on the likeness is taken to act on the original.
Show the answer
- Select a target to affect
- Craft a likeness of the target
- Act on the likeness
- Expect the act to transfer to the target by resemblance
Why
The syllogism of similarity: what is done to the image is done to the original. Wrong as physics, coherent as symbolic logic, which is why it recurs everywhere from effigies to voodoo-doll keyrings.
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