Ruth Benedict
Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in "SUP.: Initiation philosophique". Among the differences, the change in terminology from "cultures apolliniennes" to "régime diurne," and from "cultures dionysiennes" to "régime nocturne"; the earlier terminology followed that of Ruth Benedict and Nietzsche, while the new terminology follows what Durand formulated in 1960 with "The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary".