But this relation (in so far as ethnology does not seek to efface it, but on the contrary deepens it by establishing itself definitively within it) does not imprison it within the circular system of actions and reactions proper to historicism; rather, it places it in a position to find a way round that danger by inverting the movement that gave rise to it; in fact, instead of relating empirical contents as revealed in psychology, sociology, or the analysis of literature and myth to the historical positivity of the subject perceiving them, ethnology places the particular forms of each culture,