Jane Harrison ( Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ,1921): "The myth is not an attempted explanation of either facts or rites. Its origin is not in 'directed thinking', it is not rationalization. The myth is a fragment of the soul life, the dream-thinking of the people, as the dream is the myth of the individual."

Karl Abraham ( Dreams and Myths , 1909, Engl. tr. 1913): Myth is "a fragment preserved from the infantile psychic life of a race, and dreams are the myths of the individual."