- [Footnote: certain perverse actions of childhood) leads us to understand the eagle
as a composition of infantile memories, which in part are grouped around the father. The eagle, therefore, is an infantile hero who is wounded in a characteristic manner on the phallic point (beak). The dream also says: I renounce the infantile wish, I sacrifice my infantile personality (which is synonymous with: I paralyze it, castrate the father or the physician). In the Mithra mysteries, in the introversion the mystic himself becomes [Greek: a)eto/s], the eagle, this being the highest degree of initiation. The identification with the unconscious libido animal goes very far in this cult, as Augustine relates: "alii autem sicut aves alas percutiunt vocem coracis imitantes, alii vero leonum more fremunt" (Some move the arms like birds the wings, imitating the voice of the raven, some groan like lions).]
