students, going to college is partly a sexual ritual, like the ceremonial dances of the whooping crane"--or take the form of a more private induction: "formal and artificial... the impression that a long-established rite was to be enacted, among Staffordshire figures and papier-mâché trays, with the compelling, detached formality of nightmare".

Freud was particularly interested in ethnological accounts of "the 'ceremonial' (purely