too powerless to handle the bundle by themselves. Freud says that this manifests because the original story is retold time after time. “Bundle owner makes a speech in which he explains how Me’napus got the bundle and its use to mankind”(pg.148). This is a constant reminder of how divine beings think of regular people as weak and helpless.In changing our realities, Freud is trying to say that the medicine bundle doesn’t give people magical power. They only think it does because that is what they were being told. This illusion was handed down to them from generations to generations. “They imitate at the same time the report of firearms, and all the things they say and wish for will come to pass through the aid of the medicine”(pg.151). According to Freud, villagers didn’t need the medicine bundle. Hunting together would have the same effect, and they would have succeeded. A medicine bundle also made them ignorant. “I want a big buck, I want a fat doe”(pg.151). It made them ignorant because they think that they can depend on it and get whatever they want. Thus, Freud thinks that people should get rid of the medicine bundle because it makes them ignorant and they can be happy without it.In conclusion, I gave Freuds psychological interpretation to Eliades analysis and applied it to the “Menominee Medicine Bundle.” ...
