At a party given by one of Robert's colleagues, an arrogant man had been talking about the limitations of what he called the "primitive" mind.
Her primitive mind, shrewd though it was, would shatter under such an impact.
He fears a letting go because in the primitive mind it is eternally linked to death.
He was an anthropologist who wrote about the 'primitive mind'.
According to Lévy-Bruhl, moreover, the primitive mind doesn't address contradictions.
But now she had to inspect the primitive mind.
"Do you really think I have such a primitive mind?"
Even primitive minds are too complicated for that.
And I suspect you understand the primitive mind better than I do.
For the first time I almost envied Otho, whose primitive low mind couldn't have a complex if it tried.