And now I am in a position to correct and resolve a mistake I'd made earlier.
(I'd always felt somewhat uneasy about my original formulation actually -- intuitively I was on the right track; but logically my sums were not adding up correctly. This can be a problem with leading with pattern recognition as a rational-intuitive, but generally the logical issues relating to the matter at hand are finally resolved)
Clearly, (now), it is NOT the state of adaptation to the demands of civilisation -- that which Lacan sees as the outcome of "castration"-- that is in any way to be faulted. Not at all. This is to confuse actual states and outcomes with energy systems -- although one can clearly see why I was misled on the basis of Lacan's terminology, which, although referring to a STATE of being, seems to imply a loss of energy as well.
I can resolve this. It is states of being with which Lacan's system concerns itself. It is, however, ENERGY SYSTEMS that Shamanism (as a process that works on neurological systems) concerns itself with.
Shamanism, then, concerns itself not at all with the outcome of psychological adaptive processes, but rather with the loss of vital energy that takes place in the process of making normal adaptations.
And this lost energy is what shamanistic systems seek to recuperate, and I mean "energy systems" in quite a specific sense -- that is "plasticity"; the capacity to change from one form to another.
In short, shamanistic processes have solutions to the condition of "La femme de trente ans."
And it also seems very likely that the so-called "preoedipal" (or early childhood years) is what one needs to return/turn to temporarily, if one wants to regain some of one's originative plasticity. However, one simply cannot turn/return to it in a rigid state. Do do so only makes things much, much worse. AND TO MAKE MATTERS CLEAR, A CHILDLIKE STATE WHICH IS CREATIVE AND RECEPTIVE IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE ACTING OUT CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS BY A MIND THAT IS STILL PARTLY RIGID.
And Nietzsche's system cannot be understood at all, I insist, if it is not viewed as being akin to a shamanistic system aimed at recuperating the psychical energies we conventionally all too easily lose.
(I'd always felt somewhat uneasy about my original formulation actually -- intuitively I was on the right track; but logically my sums were not adding up correctly. This can be a problem with leading with pattern recognition as a rational-intuitive, but generally the logical issues relating to the matter at hand are finally resolved)
Clearly, (now), it is NOT the state of adaptation to the demands of civilisation -- that which Lacan sees as the outcome of "castration"-- that is in any way to be faulted. Not at all. This is to confuse actual states and outcomes with energy systems -- although one can clearly see why I was misled on the basis of Lacan's terminology, which, although referring to a STATE of being, seems to imply a loss of energy as well.
I can resolve this. It is states of being with which Lacan's system concerns itself. It is, however, ENERGY SYSTEMS that Shamanism (as a process that works on neurological systems) concerns itself with.
Shamanism, then, concerns itself not at all with the outcome of psychological adaptive processes, but rather with the loss of vital energy that takes place in the process of making normal adaptations.
And this lost energy is what shamanistic systems seek to recuperate, and I mean "energy systems" in quite a specific sense -- that is "plasticity"; the capacity to change from one form to another.
In short, shamanistic processes have solutions to the condition of "La femme de trente ans."
And it also seems very likely that the so-called "preoedipal" (or early childhood years) is what one needs to return/turn to temporarily, if one wants to regain some of one's originative plasticity. However, one simply cannot turn/return to it in a rigid state. Do do so only makes things much, much worse. AND TO MAKE MATTERS CLEAR, A CHILDLIKE STATE WHICH IS CREATIVE AND RECEPTIVE IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE ACTING OUT CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS BY A MIND THAT IS STILL PARTLY RIGID.
And Nietzsche's system cannot be understood at all, I insist, if it is not viewed as being akin to a shamanistic system aimed at recuperating the psychical energies we conventionally all too easily lose.
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Key and also fascinating.
Side note: that rigidity then explains my mother and also why it always seemed my parents were so old for their ages. D--n. Shocking.
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