Prerface / Jacques Voneche
Introduction
Problems and methods
Part One. Realism. 1. The notion of thought
2. Nominal relaism
3. Dreams
4. Realism and the origin of the idea of participation
Part Two. Animism. 5. Consciousness atributed to things
6. The concept of 'life'
7. The origins of child animism, moral necessity and physical determinism
Part Three. Artificialism. 8. The origin of the sun and moon
9. Metereology and the origin of water
10. The origin of trees, mountains and of the Earth
11. The meaning and origins of child artificialism
Appendix. Note on the relations between belief in efficacy and magic, in connection with [sections] 2 and 3 of chapter 4.