 Would you tell us some of the rituals which primitive societies had to break that dependency on the symbolic mother? all the big transitions in life in all Societies have been accompanied by so-called what Geneb calls read the passage writes of transition to make a ritual to help people to To to make the the step over the threshold now the most famous one which has been studied mostly by Ethnologist is the ritual of initiation where the young men are initiated into the secrets of the tribal law and into the secrets of sexuality and They have they have to leave mother and their home. They are secluded in the bush They are Symbolically devoured by a maternal monster. They are reborn. They have to generally stand a lot of tortures They are sometimes also homosexual assorted by the older men with the idea of injecting them masculinity and then they are generally at the same time instructed with the Secret law of the tribe and the religious traditions and if somebody and A young man has undergone all this ritual of transition Then he's afterwards a full member of the tribe is a man and many tribes call the ones who are afraid who are for some Over he's not initiated. They say he's not initiated. He's an animal Meaning he has remained completely unconscious. He has remained in an unconscious animal conditions He's not really made the step to being human You