12-21). Another mythical exposition of our view of sexual pleasure as the assertion of the will to live beyond the individual life, as an attainment to life which is brought about for the first time by this means, or as it were a renewed assignment of life, is the Greek myth of Proserpine, who might return from the lower world so long as she had not tasted its fruit, but who became subject to it altogether through eating the pomegranate.
Sexu-instintua asetzearen gure iritziaren beste aurkezpen mitiko bat, bizitza indibidualaren gainetiko bizitzeko nahimenaren baieztapen gisa lehen aldiz kontsumaturiko horretan abandonatze bat bezala edo nolabait bizitzarekiko preskripzio berritu bat bezala hor dago Proserpinaren mito grekoa, zeini ahalgarri izan baitzitzaion azpimundutik itzultzea, azpimunduko fruituak dastatu ez zituen heinean, baina mingrana dastatzean erabat bertan atzemana gelditzen baita.