Der Ursprung der Angst. Die älteste Mythologie der Menschen im Spiegel prä- und perinatalen Erlebens

The Origin of Anxiety. Humanity's Earliest Mythology Reflected in Pre- and Perinatal Experience. For thousands of years, in all developed societies throughout the world, mothers have been separated from their babies - as an emotional adaptation to a life of alienation in towns. The first advanced civilizations which can relate this to us are the Sumerians - and their successors the Babylonians: 5000 years ago they developed the cuneiform writing system and then recorded the oldest stories in the world. I understand their mythology as the 'great dreams' of these peoples. In the stories which tell of the great goddess Inanna and her 'baby' Dumuzi, these early separation dramas are described with impressive imagery. At a deeper level, the heroic battles are interpreted as a symbolic representation of birth: at the end of a struggle beyond the limits of human imagination, the dragon or monster is beheaded: the umbilical cord is severed, the baby is born. But this enormous battle is only ever the end of a myth, so that all the tales of the gods actually tell of what a baby experiences in its mother's womb. The Sumerians are the first culture to write of these dramatic events. Based on these wounds from pregnancy, birth and infancy, they invented more and more new pictures and stories, to make these early traumatic experiences understandable. As I believe, to calm the people of that time. These interpretations are the key to understanding the mythology of other cultures, but also to understand the hidden pre- and perinatal aspects of our own dreams.