Freud points out that "the involved principle of magic simply explains the paths alongside which magic proceeds; it does not demonstrate its real essence, namely the misunderstanding which leads it to interchange the rules of nature by psychological kinds".[224] Freud emphasizes that what led primitive Males to think of magic is the power of needs:

Social practices and know-how linked to the preparation and use of the standard plum spirit of šljivovicaBernard Carlson notes Tesla can have satisfied corporation founder Thomas Edison only a few moments.[forty two] One of those periods was noted in Tesla's autobiography in which, immediately after staying up all night fixing the weakened dynamos