Great is the Parable of Diana of the Ephesians

Freud's untitled four-paragraph text known as "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" has belied categorization and befuddled scholars to this day, reflecting broader issues in scholarly approaches to Freud's writings on the history of religion. Scholars generally agree that the essay represents Freud's first foray into the cult of the mother goddess but have failed to arrive at a consensus on what literary form his analysis takes, whether quotation, summary, review, commentary, criticism, or history. This paper explores how misleading assumptions about the content of the essay have obscured Freud's original authorial intentions, which I recover by solving the riddle of the essay's form

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